Posted: 1/31/2007 3:48:28 PM EDT
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Have a friend that has a G22 and she wants night sights on it (which means I'll be putting them on) How's the front sight work? It looks like I need a tool to do it, from the quick look I gave it it doesn't look like it's just staked on. Thanks guys |
| If it still has the factory sights, the front sight is NOT held on by any nut. Neither are the new night sights (they use a small machine screw with a very thin head on the front). Just grasp the existing front sight (if factory) with needlenose pliers and twist/pull it off (easy as pie). Get a sight pusher and push the rear out of the dovetail. Reinstall with nutdriver, special Glock tool, for the front, and a sight pusher for the rear. |
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The factory plastic front sight is pushed in from the top and then held in place with a small metal wedge/pin pushed in from the bottom to spread the base of the sight and hold it in the slide. Use some needle nose pliars to pull out the pin, and the front sight will pull out the top easily. Most aftermarket front sights for the Glock are held in with a small bolt. I made a tool to install mine by grinding off the appropriate size hex bolt:   IMPORTANT: be sure to use Loctite on the screw, or you will launch your front sight into orbit in short order... ask me how I know this. |
thanks guys. I wish I still hhad my sight pusher, but I've done more than not with a soft brass driftpunch than with the tool, the replacement sights aren't plastic so all I have to do is use hoppes and rub off the brass on the rear sight Thanks guys P.S. why the hell do they use plastic sights?? |
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Some of the night sights, like Trijicon, Meprolight & older Glock front sights has a nut to hold them on--a little LocTite and a nut driver was all that's needed. Glock changed their current factory night sights so the need to be installed with this gizmo rather than nuts: www.lonewolfdist.com/stockdetail.asp?item=GLO-ST3057 It's the same gizmo that installs the regular plastic front sight. I'd recommend Trijicons, just 'cause I wouldn't want to buy this gizmo & I already have the regualr nut driver front sight tool. Hope this helps. |