Remove staked front sight from G19

[oktavist]

Got a drill press? I'd set the depth stop carefully and just try and take off a little bit of the sprew to make punching it out easier. I think sprew is the wrong word but... Also try and find a metal tube that your punch can fit though to keep it from bending.

[banzaijohn]

First, use pliers to twist off the front sight post. Make sure you grab the whole blade so it breaks at the tenon. It will snap with at the base of the sight with a slight twist. Use a good quality punch from the TOP of the slide to drive the sight tenon down through the channel. I’ve done five or six (Gen 3 Meprolight) these using this method. No damage to finish or slide.

[G-forceJunkie]

Thats a factory glock metal site thats staked. Needs to be punched out, but note the opening in the slide is not a hole, it is a slot. Idealy, find a punch a little smaller in diameter than the lenght of the slot and grind the sides so your punch is more oval shaped. It would really help to have a sightless slide handy for measurments, or use your replacement sites and calipers to get measurments.

Break the plastic front sight off and then knock the remaining plastic DOWN through the slot from outside of the slide.

[hermosabeach]

OP


Please grab a smart phone

Take pics of sight on top of slide and inside like the pic above

Upload to www.imgbb.com

Post links here so we can see pics



It sounds like you don't have OEM sights

[ar15barrels]

I thought about that but unless I'm totally off the mark the front sight isn't plastic; it's metal.
I ran a small file over it lightly and it skated instead of biting.
So I'm reluctant to break the sight off out of concern for damaging the slide.

Thats a factory glock metal site thats staked.

I have not run across a factory glock metal stake-in front sight.
I do have the factory glock plastic front sight staking tool but I have only ever used it with plastic stake-in sights from back before they went to a screw.

I agree that I would not try breaking a metal sight because it would possibly damage the slide's slot.
I would mill the sight off the slide until it was around 0.005" tall and then punch it down through the slot.
The 0.005" remaining will break right off from punching on the center of the remaining sight piece and the size of the slot will be plainly visible.
If the front sight has a tritium vial, I would use a foredom to cut away at the staking until I had it sufficiently thinned out that I could wiggle the sight and then I would pull the sight post out from the top.
That's how I have always taken out staked-in 1911 front sights.

[mtenenhaus]

[george223]

Cut the punch to make it shorter. Less likely to bend.

[SkyHawk]

Cut the punch to make it shorter. Less likely to bend.

This, or get a starter punch - I use these to start stubborn pins

https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/general-gunsmith-tools/punches/grace-short-pin-punch-kit-sku100025421-109746-207750.aspx

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XNNX4SH/

[tr6guns]

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[bergmen]

Interesting. We bought both of our Gen 3 G19s in 2005 and the front sights in both were held in by a very thin hex head screw.

Dan

[G-forceJunkie]

Old plastic front sights were held in with a plastic pin
Newer plastic sights are held in with a hex screw
Aftermarket sights are held in with a screw
Factory Glock metal front sights are staked in
Factory installed nite sights are staked in

Interesting. We bought both of our Gen 3 G19s in 2005 and the front sights in both were held in by a very thin hex head screw.

Dan

[ar15barrels]

Old plastic front sights were held in with a plastic pin
Newer plastic sights are held in with a hex screw

When was that old-new transition?
Around 1998/1999 or so with the Gen3 release if I recall.

[G-forceJunkie]

Remove staked front sight from G19

When was that old-new transition?
Around 1998/1999 or so with the Gen3 release if I recall.

[NoHeavyHitter]

Factory installed nite sights are staked in

FWIW, if you buy the Glock factory tritium night sight (as an add-on item), it is supplied with a thin hex-head fastener. My G34 OD purchased around 2018 had a plastic front sight held on with the same hex-head screw. It's worth the few bucks that it costs for the specialty hex tool.