Removing and reinstalling CW9 sights?

[Evi1joe]

I'm going to KG gunkote my CW9 slide.
I think I can do all the disassembly, EXCEPT I'm worried about getting the sights on and off (especially the front one). I could tape over them and hope they don't melt--I'm assuming I cook it for 30 minutes or so at 200 degrees.

How hard is it to get them on/off?

Does kahr sell replacements? I found all kinds of fancy front sights--which may or may not work with the standard rears, but I didn't see the normal, plastic pinned one on their website.

[MW surveyor]

Hate to say this, but to get the front sight off, you have to break it off and then get a new front sight. Kahr does sell the direct replacement pretty cheap. I replaced mine with a night sight. No problems with aiming. Same height as the original.

Rear sight, use a drift and drift it out/in.

[ParrotHead]

Doesn't the rear sight only come off in one direction...or is that another model I'm thinking of?

[Evi1joe]

Yeah, usually rear sights drift out in only one direction.
Glad to know the night sight is same height--I LOVE Kahr standard sights more than any other sights (straight-eights are good too), so I'd hate to have to do the three-dot thing.

I've never owned a two-tone gun, and just can't get used to the look. I was planning on doing the slide, barrel and extractor...got a new black PM9 slide-stop (MIM pin scares me, however irrationally--I read here it was a steel pin and MIM lever, but I read on ar15.com that someone had checked and it was a MIM-pin&lever). May try the trigger later.

[LorenzoB]

The CM and CW series guns have MIM parts. The slide stop is made as a single piece. I've not heard of any failures yet, and I think much of the worry comes from perception (or miss perception). MANY gun manufactures successfully use this process these days. When I originally bought my CW9, I thought I would replace that part, but over time it just looks like a good quality part. The machined one on my PM9 looks nicer to me, but that is not noticeable to anyone, including me, from a few feet away, or when I'm shooting.

In the famous words of Jocko...
"Shoot it like you stole it!"

[Evi1joe]

What are the other MIM parts? I think thats the only one. The extractor looked like it had grain to it....like forged.
--joe f