Front sight tool for No.#4's

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Do you have to make one or it a common piece of kit?Where are they sold? Mine is hitting way left.................Thanx Harold
 
If you're talking about the screw that tightens the front sight base on the blade: I just cut off the tip of an old, small screwdriver. Then I used a small cut-off disk with my dremel tool to cut a slot on the tip of the screwdriver. Works great.

Lou
 
mbogo3 said:
Once is backed off is it free to move or is there anything else needing losened? Thanx Harold
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Surprised nobody has asked the important question. Is your rifle a Long Branch? Does it have the screw retaining the front sight or not? The Brit rifles just use tension, the Canadian ones use the screw.

Once the screw is loosened, it's easy to move the blade side to side.

Member Gairlochian makes sight screw tools reasonably.
 
mbogo3 said:
What did you use ?dia.etc.............Harold
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Steel :D ,a lathe and a mill.

louthepou said:
If you're talking about the screw that tightens the front sight base on the blade: I just cut off the tip of an old, small screwdriver. Then I used a small cut-off disk with my dremel tool to cut a slot on the tip of the screwdriver. Works great.

Lou
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That works too.

Cheers, Kyle
 
It's a 1950 LB and my SKS tool is just a little too lrg.Close but no cigar.No lathe no mill.Dremel and an old screwdriver if I must.Will need a higher front sight as well as the 200 yard setting is printing a good 6" high.@ 100..........Harold........*015 LB is the sight marking I'd like the 200yard setting to be bang on at 100 instead for hunting purposes
 
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If you have the solid front sight block you can usually move the sight blade with careful use of a punch and a small hammer. Scribe a line right up against the block with a sharp point along the underside of the blade on the side towards which you are going to move the blade. You'll need to remove the foresight protector to do this. Then you'll be able to see how much you have moved the blade, and if necessary drive it back the other way in case you over do it the first time.

If you have the split foresight block, all you need is the screw driver mentioned above. Whack the end off an old screwdriver (better steel than the new ones, mostly), slit with a hacksaw and open/clean up with a flat needle file as required. The screw head measures about 70 thou or 1.8mm wide.
 
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