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Ronin Operator 9mm Rear Sight removal

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I am trying to drift the rear sight to the right. I have loosened, then removed, the set screw and am using a Real Avid Sight Adjustment tool to no avail. It won't budge. I sent an email to Springfield CS and they said I needed to send it to the factory for them to adjust. This seems ridiculous to me. Has anyone encountered issues with drifting the rear sight? Thank you
 
Just got second reply from SA CS. They said it could have been glued as well with Loctite and it may need to be heated up. If anyone knows anything different, my ears are open. Thanks
 
I cannot speak for that particular firearm. My XD-m 3.8 compact .45 was a BEAR to remove super tight. Local gunsmith broke his sight removing tool. I took it home and put it in a vice with leather protection and used a steel punch to drive it out. Even then it fought back. I've been told some have actually needed to be cut in half to remove due to how tightly they fit them.
 
Pitdogg2 said:
I cannot speak for that particular firearm. My XD-m 3.8 compact .45 was a BEAR to remove super tight. Local gunsmith broke his sight removing tool. I took it home and put it in a vice with leather protection and used a steel punch to drive it out. Even then it fought back. I've been told some have actually needed to be cut in half to remove due to how tightly they fit them.
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Thanks Bob. I think I'm in the same boat. Appreciate it. Ron
 
Pitdogg2 said:
I cannot speak for that particular firearm. My XD-m 3.8 compact .45 was a BEAR to remove super tight. Local gunsmith broke his sight removing tool. I took it home and put it in a vice with leather protection and used a steel punch to drive it out. Even then it fought back. I've been told some have actually needed to be cut in half to remove due to how tightly they fit them.
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Put safely removed slide in padded bench vise, using heat from a pencil tipped torch on both sides of outside of dovetail, not on sight itself or sides in dovetail, heat should loosen dovetails grip on stuck sight. Remember heat expands metal, avoid using heat on sight itself because of it. While slide's still hot, try to remove sight several times while heating with non combustible drift or punch with tapping motion, it may not take much heat to remove sight, tap out old sight with drift/punch. Let sight and slide cool down before installing new sight. Remember to clean and relube slide afterwards. Heat may have degraded lube. If haven't used torch before or are not used to using one, always use caution.
 
BobM said:
Put safely removed slide in padded bench vise, using heat from a pencil tipped torch on both sides of outside of dovetail, not on sight itself or sides in dovetail, heat should loosen dovetails grip on stuck sight. Remember heat expands metal, avoid using heat on sight itself because of it. While slide's still hot, try to remove sight several times while heating with non combustible drift or punch with tapping motion, it may not take much heat to remove sight, tap out old sight with drift/punch. Let sight and slide cool down before installing new sight. Remember to clean and relube slide afterwards. Heat may have degraded lube. If haven't used torch before or are not used to using one, always use caution.
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Thank you very much! Ron
 
Sometimes they are just in there that tight, thats why in the shop I use a BASP.......Big A## Sight Pusher. If youget to the point that it wont move even with heat, before you “get a bigger hammer” and potentially mess something up look up. www.xdman.com
 
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