New Sights for the CW9

[Rodenmg]

Hello all. New member here. I was a very good boy this past year and Santa brought me a new CW9. Actually I’ve had it a few weeks and have virtually fallen in love with it. I’ve fired about 500 rounds through it so far without a single glitch. This morning I decided to mount up a set of night sights. Because of some of the nightmare stories I’d read I was a little hesitant to try it without a sight press but went ahead with it. Piece of cake. I modified a brass punch to fit the dovetail, put the slide in the freezer for about an hour and all it took was a few mild hits with the hammer and it slid right out. I had to file the new sight a bit until it slid about 1/4 way into the slide. Then put the sight in the freezer for about 15 minutes and set the slide on top of the warm stove. It then tapped right in. And the best part is I didn't destroy a thing. The front sight was a no brainer using the little set screw and all.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rodenmg/images/sight_punch.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~rodenmg/images/night_sight1.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~rodenmg/images/night_sight2.jpg

[gb6491]

Welcome to the forums!:)
Very nice work on the sight installations and the photos.
Thanks for sharing the heat and cold technique, plus the modified punch is pretty neat:cool:
Regards,
Greg

[JFootin]

Welcome to the forums!:)
Very nice work on the sight installations and the photos.
Thanks for sharing the heat and cold technique, plus the modified punch is pretty neat:cool:
Regards,
Greg

Welcome to the forum, Rodemg! You just got praised by the professor of DIY around here! Cudos! :third:

[Rodenmg]

I am honored. Thanks guys. :)

I've been reading just about everything I could on this site and have picked up a bunch of good information. Great forum.

[jocko]

yes but when GB6491 says nice work, he means it. I never thought about the heat/cold thing. I have seen that done before in cycle shops to remove bearing races. cool idean (jno pun intended)

Most replacement sights do need some bottom sanding to them for that perfect custom fit. some mount them so they are easly movealbe left or ight, so like todrive um home for keeps. I would thiink even tha tif hte slide was placed in a freezer overnight and the sight just left at room temp, that again it would slide it alot easier to.

nice report and welcome to the fourm. looks like to me u might be a real welcomed addition to our DIY group.

[KMA]

Welcome to the forum. You did a good job!

[muggsy]

You can also warm the slide with a heat gun or hair dryer to aid in rear sight instillation. I chose the heat gun since I'm sans hair. Worked slicker than snot.

[jaydee]

Good job. I can't find sights for Kahr listed at Trigicon.
What model number did you use?
JD

[Rodenmg]

Good job. I can't find sights for Kahr listed at Trigicon.
What model number did you use?
JD

I got them directly from Kahr.

http://www.kahr.com/Sights/2/Sights.aspx

[jocko]

You can also warm the slide with a heat gun or hair dryer to aid in rear sight instillation. I chose the heat gun since I'm sans hair. Worked slicker than snot.

if one threw the sightr sin the freezer over night and then hair dryer the slide, they might even slide right in with little or no "banging"..

[ripley16]

Next time I need a sight installed I know where to send it. :D Good thinking outside the box. I like that!