When Changing Your Stock Mini 14 Sights To Tech Sights Doesn't Go As Planned. How To fix It.
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- čas přidán 3. 03. 2022
- I purchased Tech Sights to replace my stock Mini 14 sights. It started out easy enough, until the tool broke off in the original sight bolt. Now it's time to use common sense to get yourself out of the jam. We will get through it. I'll show you how.
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After watching this demonstration I have decided I will NOT be changing out my Ruger rear site. Thank you.
UPDATE: i did change out my rear sight but used a heat gun on the area after removing the stock. Was still very tight but the screw popped loose. All good.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who broke my torx bit off in the rear sight.
I use heat from a propane torch to heat the screw, which liquifies the lockTite.
Thanks for the tip.
I had the same problem. If I did it again, I’d use a soldering iron on the torx screw to melt the loctite.
It is really good that you had that issue with the located screw. You were able to provide a solution that anyone with some patience could also be successful with. Thank you.
Similar things have happened to me, and I admire your coolness in solving the problem.
When encountering a stubborn small machine screw, with thread locker, apply concentrated heat to the screw. I use a small butane torch. Most thread locking adhesives will break their bond with heat applied. In the future use, Loctite 222 purple on small machine screws.
Thanks. Great ideas to solve same rear sight screw problem I'm currently dealing with. Appreciate the close up start to finish vid. Now to finish Tech sight install.
Joel.. Issaquah wa
I had the same problem. I used my drill in reverse with different size bits to move the screw but I found that beating lightly on the ears of the sight, one side then the other over and over it finally started to move just a fraction and then taking out the screw was easy. Crude yes but successful 😁.
And just think, I hired this guy to work on my Maserati.
😂😂😂😳
The easy solution is to take a hand held blow dryer , set on highest heat setting, blow on and around the screw for 8 mins or more, use the hex screw in the package of the new rear site, take a small box end wrench over the long end of the hex for leverage and apply very firm pressure to loosen the screw . Works every time. I have changed many rear sites using this method on Mini 14 rear sites. Much easier than grinding and drilling on the rifle.
Does the blow dryer soften the locTite or expand the steel?
You Da Man Timboyd, New Stock 585 series.Tried before heating with milwaukee torx bit with mini rachete ,would not budge. Heated with black and decker heat gun for 10 min, loosened right up. Easy Peezey. Thanks Again
I think I would have used blue (removable strength) thread locking compound instead of red ( permanent strength), so that I'd be less likely to face the same issue if I ever decided to change, or had to replace the rear sight.
I had a torx bit break off in mine too. Thankfully, I was able to get the broken part out, then I applied brake cleaning fluid to the screw to soften the loctite. After a couple of hours for the brake cleaner to soak around the threads, and with a new torx bit, it came right out. Lesson learned. If loctite is suspected, soak it in CNC brakleen, and NOT the non-chlorinated version.
Never use the red color locktite. That's why your torex wrench broke. Use the blue locktite only as it is made to hold the screw but allow you remove the screw if you want. Red is permanent.
I was considering the tech sights. Wanted to see if i could get the rear sight off before i bought them. Snapped 4 torx wrenches. Luckily no damage to the original sight, the tips fell right out. Decided that the juice wasnt worth the squeeze and just used blue loctite on the set screws when i zeroed my factory sights. Ive been quite pleased with the accuracy of them since zeroing.
Wow, just Wow!
Nice recovery/removal of a stubborn screw. Loctite can be a real bear
I just wanted to let viewers know not to give up. It’s just a hiccup in the road.
If you don't care if you are butchering the factory sight then go ahead and use a 3 lb. hammer and a large chisel. I just got done replacing mine with the Tec Sight and wanted to keep the factory original. The factory screw would not budge. I heated the factory screw for quite a while with a large soldering iron with a 1/4 tip. Didn't help. Still stripped out the screw head. I got a drill bit slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw so I wouldn't damage the female threads and drilled down the center of the screw shaft half the length of the screw, then changed to a smaller diameter drill bit to drill down almost to the bottom. Then I used the correct size of easy out bit to easily extract the factory screw. I don't know why anyone would use red instead of blue Loctite here, but to each his own. The Tec Sights are an improvement. I got the kit with the alternate rear post and 3 different sized aperture inserts. I put a little machine gunner's lube on the rear post elevation adjustment washer and it rotates much easier now.
Cut a slot in the screw within a DREMEL..
I just ordered a Mini Thirty. I wouldn't mount that sight simply because it covers the engravement on the top of the receiver.
I have been watching youtube videos looking for tips and improvements. I have come to the conclusion that the best mods to do with a Mini is no mods at all.
I had to drill out my screw and it’s a new one. Tech sights work great for me.
Don't use a torx with the center hole. They will break. Use a solid torx, you should have no issues. Keep the torx head seated as you remove, to avoid rolling it out and stripper the head.
Broke my torx bit too. That 5-40 screw would not budge.
When I was removing my stock sight screw I stripped it horribly.
I ended up using a screw extractor and that worked for me
Why wouldn’t you clamp the barrel? I wouldn’t want my stock under those pressures
What a real winner he is…
Actually the shadow helped to partially cover that abortion of a rear sight removal.
These sights are notoriously difficult to remove.
Having the same problem right now with my mini 14 sight removal
Trying the Grab It bit. No luck. This is from the factory install I never added loctite. Really frustrating
It's possible to instal T105E1 rear sight (M1 Garand) in the mini-14?
Are they made in USA?
Drill hole. Use ez-out bit
Is the new tech site that you installed plastic or metal
why didn't you use an allen wrench???
RED loctite NO WAY! Blue locktite ONLY!
Way easier method is to disassemble the rifle, removing the bolt from the receiver, use a soldering iron to melt whatever factory adhesive they put on, then use a dremel with a cutting wheel to make an improvised blade screwdriver cut. Gonna mess up the factory sight but having to chisel and chisel in a circle is gonna damage your rifle!
All he had to do was apply a little a heat to the head of the screw with a $7 mini hand torch. That way he could have saved the original factory sight. No wonder he couldn't remove the original sight with the torx wrench! he is using red locktite. The blue loctite would have been enough.
Dude too painful to watch
I believe I would look for a different gunsmith.
I guess you know, and evidently, you wanted to put RED Loctite on the mounting screw of the new Tech Sight⁉🤔I hope you never need to remove the new sight.
Blue.Loctite.Only.
Never EVER use red locktite on screws that you would ever plan on removing. And NEVER use red locktite on screws that small. And a Torque wrench should always be used.
Oh chit ,
Can not hear you,you need to turn up the volume !!!
BUBBA is your name.
You broke your bit and ruined the old sight because you used red locktite and tried to remove it without heat.
Your audio is c***
Red loctite ,I’m laughing my ass off.. I can’t stop laughing. Funniest shit I’ve seen in a while.😂😂😂😂