Question - Tips for installing Novak front sights to 1911?

[heidad01]

I enjoying sharing the info. I’m aware I can come off wrong sometimes. It’s never meant that way.
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Those who know the machining trade did not take it that way.

I'm not a machinist by trade (engineer), but I learned machining from a master machinist who made aerospace parts.
About half dozen years every weekend or any free time I had, I'd go to his shop and watch him work, ask questions, and help if I could. Not for pay, just because I was fascinated by the precision and intricacy of work. Then I hit the library and started buying all kinds of machining books from old to new (30s to 90s).

You would be amazed at how much knowledge, equipment, measuring gadgets, metallurgy, etc, it takes to do proper machining. It can't be learned over a weekend nor does everyone get the concept readily.
Before the age of CNCs, every piece of precision metal used in every gadget, from binoculars to fighter jets to...... was made by machinists and if needed to one ten thousanth (1/10000") of an inch in precision.

Long story short, gotta be a machinist first before one becomes a gunsmith. I have a lot of respect for machinists.

[R.Mac]

I like to make the fit slightly on the sliding side and Loctite two #2-56 set screws on either side of the sight blade as shown with the green lines on OP's post. This "locks" the sight into the dovetail cut and avoids having to pound the **** outta the sight should it get too tight half way in. Dovetail cuts are tricky and need to be perfect (which is virtually impossible). I figured since many rear sights have a set screw, why not front sight.

[CifaldiPrecision]

Question - Tips for installing Novak front sights to 1911?

I like to make the fit slightly on the sliding side and Loctite two #2-56 set screws on either side of the sight blade as shown with the green lines on OP's post. This "locks" the sight into the dovetail cut and avoids having to pound the **** outta the sight should it get too tight half way in. Dovetail cuts are tricky and need to be perfect (which is virtually impossible). I figured since many rear sights have a set screw, why not front sight.