Replacing Front Night Sight on Beretta 96F

[five.five-six]

I have spent about an hour searching the inter-webs and I'm not really clear on how to go about replacing the Tritium inserts or do I just break them and fill the holes with paint?

[land locked]

Is the front sight dovetailed? If it is you can drift it out yourself.

Are they trijicon night sights? If you send them in they will replace the vials.

If fixed check with Beretta USA or Midwest Gun Works. They might be able to help.


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[five.five-six]

Not dovetailed but I believe they are trijicon.

[land locked]

If they are Trijicon, read up on this page.

https://www.trijicon.com/na_en/support/faq_BNTNS.php

From their website.

"Yes, Trijicon can install our replacement sights on weapons listed in our price sheet. If your handgun is a Semi-automatic you only need to send in the slide. Only the frame needs to be sent for Revolvers. Please call our Customer Service Department at 1-800-338-0563 for shipping instructions and pricing information or submit a Return Authorization Request by clicking here."

[CandG]

I think breaking the glass tritium insert is a radiation hazard, isn't it?

[five.five-six]

I think breaking the glass tritium insert is a radiation hazard, isn't it?

I think if there's no more light comeing out, all the radiation is all used up.

[1911su16b870]

Get an RMA from Trijjicon, send in slide to them and they will replace the bulb with a new vial of tritium.

[SandHill]

The Beretta 92FS is kind of complicated for night sights. The rear is dovetailed, but the front sight is integral to the slide. So the front night sight has to be drilled into the slide. A little inconvenient when you have to replace the tritium vial, but not a big deal. You just sent the slide in to have the vial replaced. Until recently.

Tooltech and Trijicon both did this until about a year ago. Then ToolTech stopped doing them, saying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (! Yohsuh!) had some new regs that prevented it. Trijicon will apparently still replace the vial as long as the slide is already drilled for night sights, but won't drill it if isn't already. Better call them first to confirm.

Long but informative thread on the subject on BerettaForum.net here: http://berettaforum.net/vb/showthrea...rijicon+sights

[five.five-six]

I think I am going to just buy some tritium vials and try my hand at replacing them myself

[five.five-six]

OK, I did it, it came out great, cost about $30

I couldn't figure out what kind of white glue to use to get the vials to stay in place so I used spray paint.. We'll see how it holds up

[Carcassonne]

I think breaking the glass tritium insert is a radiation hazard, isn't it?

You will get more injured from the broken glass vial than from the Tritium.

Tritium is H3; a molecule with 3 hydrogen atoms. A regular hydrogen molecule is H2. H3 is lighter than a Helium atom.

Unless you have your face directly on top of the Tritium vial and take a deep breath the very moment the glass vial breaks, it won't affect you. If you do happen to breathe in some H3 from a larger vial, it is the equivalent radiation of 1 modern dentist's X-ray. You will probably get more radiation being in the sun for an hour.


I do not agree with this video. I am just showing it for entertainment.



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[five.five-six]

It worked, lets see if they fall out when I shoot it LOL