GUNSMITHING Night Sights on USP Compact

[68_F100]

I am going to install some and I want to find someone or a shop with a sight tool. Don't care much for the hammer and punch idea.

 

[It'sAllFun&Games]

Yeah, those sight tools are really cool, but also kinda pricey for something you won't use much.
Brownells sells a nylon punch for drifting out sights ($5 plus shipping).
Here's a better way:
I cut a 2" piece of 3/8" diameter oak dowel and use that as my punch. Works like a charm, and it won't scratch your finish.
You really can do precision adjustments with it.
Not as easy as a specialized sight adjusting tool, but it's about $150 cheaper.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

Go to Hand Gun Sight tool - Home - El Cajon, CA... nifty tool for $60. And you won't risk screwing up your night sights when putting them in. As I mentioned in another thread - I have no connection to the company - just bought the tool to install night sites on a couple of Kahrs. Works like a champ and should be universal to most any slide.

Or PM me if you want to try it out and can make it down south...

 

[drillsgt]

HK sights are not hard, you could do fine as others have suggested with a hard wood dowel or some type of delrin punch.

 

[68_F100]

How do you line them up after you change them?

 

[It'sAllFun&Games]

How do you line them up after you change them?

You can measure them to make sure they are centered in the slide. If they are centered, you should be on target. You can just lightly tap them with your punch to make adjustments.

 

[David]

This isn't as pretty as some out there and it has that home made look to it, but that's just because I made it at home. It was made specifically for 1911 sights but I recently put night sights on my wifes G19 with it. The hammer and punch method is discouraged when installing night sights. Kimber rear sights are said to be among the worst, the slide here is a Kimber that I removed the rear sight from to get at the FPB. The dial gauge is much faster for aligning the sight than the trial and error hammer and punch method too.

Also, if your gun is shooting right or left and you know the sight radius, distance to target, and difference between POA & POI, you can calculate how far a sight needs to be moved to correct it.

 

[It'sAllFun&Games]

@ David:
Wow, that is ingenious! Good job!
How did you create the part that holds the slide in place?

 

[68_F100]

Thats a nice setup. Where are you located?

 

[David]

@ David:
Wow, that is ingenious! Good job!
How did you create the part that holds the slide in place?

A piece of scrap steel, and one of these.

I left that piece out when I changed the Glock sights, I just clamped the slide to the jig using another block of wood as a pad.

It's nice to have a mill, but you could make a jig similar to this with basic hand tools.

 

[David]

Thats a nice setup. Where are you located?

Not in Indiana, I stumbled onto INGO via a google search one day and just hung around. I'd be happy to let you use it but it probably wouldn't be worth the drive.