Front Sight

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Howdy!

About 5 years ago, I finished "fixing" my Remington NMA, by Pietta.  The gun had NUMEROUS problems, but was a good priced "going out of business" gun.  The highlight was chopping the barrel due to a factory f...up that should NEVER have made it out their QC door.  In fairness to Pietta, this gun was probably 7-10 years old by that time - 'tho NEARLY unfired - and I understand their new products are considerably better in the quality department.


Anyhoo, I dovetailed the lever latch under the barrel.  For reasons SILL unknown - to myself - I bought a front sight that was supposed to be press-fit in.  It was an extremely odd size, but at the time, I wasn't worried, as I have all fractional drills, from 1/16" - 3/4", the Alphabet drill bits, and 1-80 Wire bit sizes.  I figured I was covered, even without any Metric bits.



                    I figured wrong.

The closest I could come to what I needed was about .002"-.0025" (after drilling) oversize because I couldn't do the press-fit thing.  So, I ended up using High-Strength 24 Hour Epoxy.

Fast forward to 2008.  The gun has been shot 200-300 times and it's a Shooter,   I'm proud to say.  But I felt the barest movement of the front post sight after cleaning it the last time I shot it! 

Here's the NMA with a couple of its younger brothers:



Obviously, I need that sight to become permanent.  Can I heat up the sight/end of the barrel enough to flow silver solder in the hole WITHOUT having to re-blue the end of the barrel?  (I have NO ca$h for professional services, so it's MY way or the Hi-way.)

Any other ideas?  When I epoxied it initially, I used my Dremel in a couple places to "rough-up" and lightly gouge the post, so it would have something to "grip" to and I think this is why it hasn't fallen out!  I think I accidentally did it right, in that instance!

I'm thinking that the heat will cause the epoxy to boil and with flux added with heating, should cause no problem.  Or ... ?

Thanks, all!

Jeff  "Steel Horse Bailey"

[Coffinmaker]

Simple fix, clean out the hole and use JB Weld.

Coffinmaker

[St. George]

Taking the above advice a bit farther - roughen the interior hole and exterior of the post a bit - then make absolutely certain that both are clean.

'J-B Weld' works great - but be certain to let it set before you think of doing 'anything' with the piece.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Pettifogger]

This is what I use.  Real silver solder takes a LOT more heat.

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=709&title=HI-FORCE%2044?%20SOLDER

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Thanks to all!