The front sight of my sks is completely siezed. I can adjust windage, tried buying one of those NC star adjustment tools from Flahertys, didn't fit so I returned it. I put oil on it and let it soak in for a couple days, tried smacking it with a punch and hammer, will not budge. Does anyone have any advice? I'm getting really frustrated, it's pretty much useless if I cant adjust the sight (its way off). Thanks.
Siezed SKS front sight! Help!
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BeaverMeat
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- Nanaimo, B.C.
Did you use penetrating oil?
BeaverMeat
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Nanaimo, B.C.
Soak it longer and get a bigger hammer. And make sure the sight base is sufficiently supported.
Do you mean you "can't" adjust windage? That would call for a punch and hammer. Try heating it with a propane torch. Then penetrating oilf for a few days. It has had 60 years to dry out.
The NCstar adjustment tools will work with a bit of filing. You just need to round off the corners that block it from pressing against the side of the sight.
And a screw type sight adjuster works WAY better than a hammer and punch, specially the first time when it is siezed from 60+ years of storage.
And a screw type sight adjuster works WAY better than a hammer and punch, specially the first time when it is siezed from 60+ years of storage.
AKFST Heavy Duty SKS Sight Tool from hical.ca worked for me; Pricy but worked. A kettle full of boiling water also does wonders
Reviving an old thread but exact same issue. Just bought an SKS from Cabelas. Sight is way off to the right. Ordered the NCstar tool. What a waste of time. After receiving it I had to dremel the $hit out of it just to get it fit properly. In any case, my sight will not budge. Tried a punch with mallet. Nothing, not even a mm. I do own a powerful heat gun. Before I try it though was concerned if I'd be compromising the finish/blueing of the firearm. Heat gun plus PEN oil perhaps? Getting frustrated as well here.
Travis Bickle
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- Upper Lower Middle Alberta
Heat it with a torch, then penetrating oil while hot to really get it to suck into the crevices.
Let it soak for a couple minutes, then make sure you have very good support of the barrel and sight block on a wood bock/drifting puck (modified hockey pucks work great for that purpose).
Get a good solid brass punch (use steel if you don't care too much about the side of the sight looking pretty) and give it a good couple heavy solid smacks with a hammer.
Once you break it loose, just oil it heavily and from there your windage sight tool should work no problem. Actually I would then use the tool and slide it all the way left and right while adding some oil to her to make sure it's moving freely.
Follow this and you shall achieve windage adjustment Sir!
Let it soak for a couple minutes, then make sure you have very good support of the barrel and sight block on a wood bock/drifting puck (modified hockey pucks work great for that purpose).
Get a good solid brass punch (use steel if you don't care too much about the side of the sight looking pretty) and give it a good couple heavy solid smacks with a hammer.
Once you break it loose, just oil it heavily and from there your windage sight tool should work no problem. Actually I would then use the tool and slide it all the way left and right while adding some oil to her to make sure it's moving freely.
Follow this and you shall achieve windage adjustment Sir!
I got frustrated with mine, torched it for a few seconds and it moved with one shot with a hammer and punch after that. The torch did singe the bluing on the sight bUT mine hasn't rusted or anything. Didn't buy the gun for the looks, I shoot cheap surplus corrosive ammo through her so I don't really care if it's a little beat up.
Thanks guys. Took the heat gun to it, got it REAL hot, then used PEN, gotta say this chemical, although hard and expensive to purchase, has always proved it's worth. After about 30 minutes of soaking I finally got the sucker to move with a punch and hammer. It was a steel punch so did scuff up the moveable cylinder a bit but not really concerned about it as I might dremel/polish it and just reblue it. Now my sight tool is able to move the cylinder on it's own. Prior to this I had tried everything else, including Ballistol.
