Posted: 6/26/2006 1:45:39 PM EDT
| I bought a Taurus PT-145 a few months ago. It's a great little gun and for me it's a keeper. I decided to put some Trijicon night sights on it and the front sight imediately flew off somewhere in bay 3 at Sam's never to be seen again. Trijicon said they would fix the problem. I sent them my slide and they kept it for about 3 weeks and sent it back to me with new sights on it. I figured since they installed the damn things it should be fixed. That was a bad assumption! Yesterday I shot a few rounds at the Ebby Island range and the front sight started coming loose again. Fortunately I caught it before it came completely off. I noticed that Trijicon didn't put any loctite on the threads. I thought they would have done that since this gun had a problem of the scews losening up. I put some red loctite on the front and rear sight screws. I also staked the screw thread for the front sight from the bottom side of the slide. It should work now. It's what Trijicon should have done in the first place. It's like the old cliche' "if you want something done right, do it yourself"! Now that I have my .45 fixed I'll have to go out and shoot it again and see if it holds together. Btw, if anyone in the north end is interested, there is a nice little gun range on Ebby Island. It's called the Everett Sportsmen Club. It has a 100 yard and 50 yard rifle range, a pistol range and trap range. It's open on Friday, Saturday & Sunday from noon to 5pm. It's not as much fun as Strat's range but it will do in a pinch. I went there yesterday to join their merry little club because the Boeing Everett Gun Club does and anual 4th of July shoot there every year. We dicided it would be easier to use their facility if one of us joined their club! |
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Howdy RedDog6 With the red loctite and staked screwes I don't think you will have a problem with it comming loose. Red Loctite is very difficult to break loose. You may be aware of this but, if not, Loctite makes different grades of Loctite for different applications and are color coded. They have some that will hold and can be broken loose with not to much effort and some (red) that are very difficult to break loose. MC |
I'm not sure what green is for. I usually use blue for most of my applications. Sounds like red is better for something you won't remove. From Loctite FAQ's:
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Are they black rifle friendly? I dislike ranges that only let you load one round per mag etc. I understand no bumping etc but sometimes they take the rules too far. |