Front Sight Adjustment

[Ganderite]

I have a cheap 2" Taurus 38Spl revolver (paid $200 for it) that I finally got around to shooting. It shot 12" high at 25 yards.

I took a fine file and took a lick off the top of the sight to bare some raw metal, and put a dab of JB Weld steel on there.

After it was hard (24 hours later) I took my fine file and trimmed the sides and top of the blob. It now looks like the same sight, except about 3 mm taller.

I shot it and it shoots POA.

I will now re-paint the sight with my red florescent (on top of a white base coat) and the sight will look original.

I do not know how durable JB Weld is. But I did a similar thing to a CZ75 clone, many years ago, using epoxy, and it has stood up perfectly.

 

[fire@will]

JB Weld is probably one of the best products of its type, that there is. I've used it on numerous occasions, for many different things and always been happy with its performance and durability. Never tried what you did, though. The JB Weld is certainly strong enough to hold up as a front sight - with reasonable care. My only concern would be, that in your application, it doesn't have very much surface area, on the top of the sight, to hold onto. In similar instances, (I've never tried it with such a tiny part) I will cut/grind tiny grooves into the mating surface of the part, to give the JB Weld a bit more to "key" into. In any case - I hope it lasts forever.