Glock Front Sight Loose w/ Pics

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Hey guys,

My Tru-Glo front sight on my Glock is slightly loose. I looked around the internet, but was unable to find out how to tight this type of sight. I believe it is staked on? There is no screw that I could see.

Here are a couple pictures.

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What are your opinions? How do I tighten it?
 
I honestly don't see any threads. What you see in that picture is exactly what I see. Two holes connected to each other with some kind of divider between the holes. It seems like one piece.

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Support the top of the sight, I like to use a piece of angle-iron in the vise with a business card between to protect the finish. Support the rear of the slide, raise it up enough to match the front sight angle.

I usually use a large, not small, center punch to spread the crimp then use a flat punch to flatten the sight. Light strikes is usually all that is needed, don't get heavy handed.
 
Alright, you lost me pretty quickly here. First off, I don't have a vice. A punch I have. :D

I am unsure where exactly I would spread this so called "crimp" What part do I want to spread?

Lodi said:
Support the top of the sight, I like to use a piece of angle-iron in the vise with a business card between to protect the finish. Support the rear of the slide, raise it up enough to match the front sight angle.

I usually use a large, not small, center punch to spread the crimp then use a flat punch to flatten the sight. Light strikes is usually all that is needed, don't get heavy handed.
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The sight is crimped into place. The hole in the slide is oblong, because it's oblong the crimp is done in two places. That is what the "holes" in the sight are, the sight was inserted into the slide from the top then a tool was placed into the "holes" and the sight was spread and crimped into place.

If you have a center punch, just use it in each of the two holes.

If you don't have a vise, no big deal, and a block of hard wood or bench top will usually suffice in lieu of angle-iron.
 
GLOCK "factory" night sights and some others, like yours are "staked" on, using a special staking tool - something that essentially crimps or squashes soft metal of the sight bottom to hold it on. You can also try and replicate this process with a punch, but it is tricky and you tend to mar the bottom of the sight in the process.

Soon or later, these always come loose. I used to have GLOCK factory night sights, and I was always trying to find some way to get it tighter. Nothing ever really worked that well. Eventually I switched over to using Trijicon night sights, which use a screw and a hex-head nut. Use a little blue loctite and it lasts a long time. These will also work themselves a bit loose over time (a year or two, depends how much you shoot), but it remedy this you simply unscrew it, apply a little blue loctite and you are back in business.

The only thing that won't work itself loose over time is a dovetail. I'm not sure why GLOCK doesn't use a dovetail for the front sight. Cost perhaps. Cheaper to do just one dovetail rather than two?
 
I have three sets of tru-glows on Glocks and none of them are staked, but screwed. You are missing the screw!

If you try and stake it as suggested, you are going to bugger it up.;)
 
KDX said:
I thought Glock used Trijicon night sights?
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Glock has a 'house' brand of night sights. They're cheaper than the trijicons that people like to get, and also have a longer warranty.

But, everyone 'need's trijicons.... And I don't mean the serious users, I mean the guys that get a hard-on when they see the sights glowing when they take the gun out of or put it back in the safe.
 
beltfed said:
I have three sets of tru-glows on Glocks and none of them are staked, but screwed. You are missing the screw!

If you try and stake it as suggested, you are going to bugger it up.;)
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I take it this is a faceitous comment, given your use of the ;) , but in any event...

...I had a look at the Gen 2 GLOCK 23 I have, which is an old police trade-in that came from Sporteque. That is the only GLOCK I have which doesn't have Trijicons. It has some dull old-school Meprolight TRU-DOTs which I never bothered to replace. Mine looks exactly like the OP's pictures. I believe what it is, is that the newer TRU-DOTs use the Trijicon-style screw system, while the old ones were stake-on style, like the GLOCK "factory" ones. If you are not planning on replacing the sights, what you will need to fix it is the proper staking tool. I would not recommend trying to fix it yourself with a punch. Ask around at your local gun shop or gunsmith and see if anyone in your area has the staking tool.

I don't know if Trijicons are on the official Kool-Aid drinker's "must have" gear list, but I do know that they are the available GLOCK sights that I prefer - having owned or tried several different types (I've owned the plastic stock sights (garbage), GLOCK night sights, TRU-DOT night sights and Trijicon night sights... and I've tried some of the Heinie sights, Big-dots and others). The standard Trijicons seem a little lower to me than some of the others, and the front sight seems a little skinnier than the TRU-DOTs - which I prefer. They seem to shoot right to point of aim for me, where some of the other sights have not. The night sight concept is obviously useless for any personally owned handgun in Canada, whether the person is a cop or anything else. If you are firing a personally owned handgun in the dark in this country you had better hope it is one hell of an "imminent death or grievous bodily harm" scenario, or you will be losing your licence and all your firearms, and probably going to jail. But, having said all that, the quality sights for most handguns are night sights, because that is what the U.S. market generates, so that is what most people tend to use.
 
Looks like ghostie posted while I was going downstairs to take a picture, oh well may help someone....

Here is a tru-glo that came off my G34

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You need a special tool driver (thin wall) to install, super easy though.

if you want to check 100% that it is not threaded, take a paper clip straighten it out, put a very small 90 degree hook in the end and use it as a feeler.

Very best,

Ian
 
ghostie said:
I take it this is a faceitous comment, given your use of the ;) , but in any event...

...I had a look at the Gen 2 GLOCK 23 I have, which is an old police trade-in that came from Sporteque. That is the only GLOCK I have which doesn't have Trijicons. It has some dull old-school Meprolight TRU-DOTs which I never bothered to replace. Mine looks exactly like the OP's pictures. I believe what it is, is that the newer TRU-DOTs use the Trijicon-style screw system, while the old ones were stake-on style, like the GLOCK "factory" ones. If you are not planning on replacing the sights, what you will need to fix it is the proper staking tool. I would not recommend trying to fix it yourself with a punch. Ask around at your local gun shop or gunsmith and see if anyone in your area has the staking tool.

I don't know if Trijicons are on the official Kool-Aid drinker's "must have" gear list, but I do know that they are the available GLOCK sights that I prefer - having owned or tried several different types (I've owned the plastic stock sights (garbage), GLOCK night sights, TRU-DOT night sights and Trijicon night sights... and I've tried some of the Heinie sights, Big-dots and others). The standard Trijicons seem a little lower to me than some of the others, and the front sight seems a little skinnier than the TRU-DOTs - which I prefer. They seem to shoot right to point of aim for me, where some of the other sights have not. The night sight concept is obviously useless for any personally owned handgun in Canada, whether the person is a cop or anything else. If you are firing a personally owned handgun in the dark in this country you had better hope it is one hell of an "imminent death or grievous bodily harm" scenario, or you will be losing your licence and all your firearms, and probably going to jail. But, having said all that, the quality sights for most handguns are night sights, because that is what the U.S. market generates, so that is what most people tend to use.
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They are not useless. Maybe less useful but not useless. They work quite well in dimly lit indoor ranges. Also, great for night shoots and dusk/dawn/night competitions. Plus, LE officers are wise to train in the dark/dimly lit environments as there is a good chance they might have to use them in those conditions. I dont currently own any handguns with night sights as I prefer fiber optic for most stuff but, plan on getting a night sight equipped handgun for the situations listed above. I have legally fired a handgun in dimly lit or dark conditions many times and the tritiums definitely are the way to go for that. Much easier to get a good sight picture.
 
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