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Post by Semtex on Feb 16, 2005 20:23:18 GMT -5
The sights are Novak low mounts. They mount with a dovetail cut into the slide.
I have the cutters for the Novaks here someplace and the tools to cut the hammer and sear for the trigger pull. I would have to dig those out , haven`t done much gun work for a little while now ( got married in `99 and that cut out a lot of fun stuff )
I did everything that is on the Commander in those pictures. I had one pistol built by a gunsmith ( 10mm Delta Elite ) and I wasn`t satisifed with the work so I have done all my own since then.
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Post by TimberWolf762 on Feb 16, 2005 23:48:12 GMT -5
Are the sights 3-dot or what? Can't tell from the photos and Novak has a ton of models.
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Post by TimberWolf762 on Feb 16, 2005 23:50:22 GMT -5
OK, never mind that last post.
How about - if you installed Novak (or whatever) 3-dot sights and cut 8 serrations in the slide (each side) , what would we be talking about?
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Post by Semtex on Feb 17, 2005 18:04:47 GMT -5
Modify the skin on your player and play one week of JO wearing a pink ballerina outfit and we will call it square on the .45 work.
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Post by Saggin on Feb 17, 2005 18:27:12 GMT -5
I hear tell that he wears a pink ballerina costume while playing JO E any way so you aren't asking him for much Semtex.
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Post by TimberWolf762 on Feb 17, 2005 18:41:41 GMT -5
Ouch! I seem to be suffering a lot of abuse here . . .
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Post by Semtex on Feb 17, 2005 19:07:19 GMT -5
Let me dig out my cutters to make sure I still have them. Give me a week or two and I will be caught up on work in the shop and I can do the work then. I moved last august and a lot of things are still in boxes or the landfill by mistake.
Take a look at Brownell`s catalog and pick out what style you want.
This is how I do mine....
1. I cut the slide and mount the rear sight on the pistol and then test fire with original front sight or a plain black blank sight if the front was too small.
2. I use the test firing to calculate how tall the front sight needs to be in order to zero the pistol with my prefered ammo ( Cor-Bon 200gr +P with the Speer flying ashtray bullet ). I don`t know if they still sell this load or not but I have enough stockpiled to defendd the homeplace a time or two.
3. Now knowing the sight height needed I can order the correct height front sight to zero my pistol.
I use plain black sights so that once I have them zeroed with the Cor-Bon ammo I can send off the slide for Tritium nite sight inserts and they will shoot point of aim with my prefered ammo load.
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Post by TimberWolf762 on Feb 17, 2005 21:17:56 GMT -5
On this pistol, I'm not really concerned with low-profile sights. I'm thinking of King's 3-dot sights #104. www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=7637&title=FIXED+1911+HARDBALL+SIGHTSI don't know the tenon size needed, though. The slide is from 1974 or 75. I believe the wide tenon is for pistols newer than 1980 and the narrow is for 1970-80, but that may not be correct. I guess I need to send you the entire upper assembly - slide, barrel, compensator, etc. and you can slip it onto your Commander frame to test fire? |
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