One of those days

Brad

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The screw came out easily. I grabbed it lightly with some hemostats untilit backed out enough to use my fingers. I was a bit concerned with it.
 

CZ93X62

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That IS some nice shooting, Brad.

Bill--I bought a couple 1/16" Home Depot drills to cut off and use as the pin. I played around with one of them about the time I went on hiatus for the foot removal, and the cruddy metal the drills are made of stakes pretty nicely into a "spread-head" with a bit of tapping. I will get to it eventually.
 

Brad

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It is marked Colt. I ordered the screw from Kensight. The dimensions all looked right.
Sight sure looks like a Kensight.
 

CZ93X62

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"Kensight" is the maker/seller of my replacement Elliason sight sitting on the bench.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Might be? I can ask my buddy that shoots there occasionally. Just think how many 200-grain swcs you could go througha week on your lunch breaks.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Overtime.....:rofl:

Your wife wouldn't even fall for that line the first time you used it.
 

Pistolero

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Well, whatever your excuse, Brad. That's real good shooting. :)

Also glad to hear that the proper mags solved your issues with occasional misfeeds.
Seems like maybe JMB had that stuff figured out. But people INSIST on "improving" stuff.:rolleyes:

Brad's wife is pretty smart. Actually, she might come down there if he worked in that job
and get some overtime, too.

Bill
 
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Pistolero

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Al, see if you can find some 1/16th inch piano wire, very strong yet can take a slight bend to keep it in place. Hardware stores here have hobby assortments with small brass, aluminum tubes and piano wire in various sizes.
Drills are strong but brittle.
 

CZ93X62

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The Ace Hardware in Yucaipa (not far away) has just such an assortment. I will snag some of that as well.

The 1/16" ChiCom drill metal peens out OK for a positive "stop" at the pin gallery of the GC. Cruddy metal for a drill, but might be re-purposed for this application and hold up for a while.
 

Pistolero

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Amazing that something that someone would pretend is a drill will rivet out at all.
But then Ian has the special drill for drilling around corners. o_O

"Drills are strong but brittle." Well, American drills are. Chicom drills......vary. :rolleyes:

I'd cut the piano wire to length with an abrasive cutoff wheel in a dremel, then spin it
in my fingers against the fragile disk to round the ends. Finally, put a bit of a kink in
it, maybe .010-.020 or so, and then tap it into place. The kink puts enough tension to
hold it in without tending to work out, at least not quickly. I ran a pair of Gold
Cups as my IPSC guns for about 7 or 8 years, and this worked better than the
factory pin or the roll pin. One of those GC's lives on my nightstand. It is
a gun that I know is 100% reliable. I added a tritium front sight when it went
to that duty station.

Bill
 
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CZ93X62

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Dunno if the ChiComs have the Five-Year Plans any more or not. Soviet Russia did until it fell in 1991, and Russian products used to get screws driven with hammers in order to Make The Quota when those Plans were approaching dead-line. I would no more use these drills for their intended purpose than shoot smokeless steel shot loads in a Damascus-barreled shotgun, but as a sight-mount pin they might just work out. That piano-wire idea is stored in event of need, just the same.