Garand Front Sight Screw Help

[TargetTerror]

The front sight screw on my Garand does not want to budge. At all. I sprayed it with some PB Blaster but it still didn't want to move after about 30+ minutes of soaking.

I'm thinking there is some sort of loctite on there. It is a mid-400k Springfield serial #, so definitely around in WWII. Was it ever armory practice to loctite this screw in place? Obviously anything could have happened since it left the army (I bought it used, not through the CMP), but I'm just wondering if these screws normally hard so hard to remove.

 

[FlyinBryan]

when ive had probs with one ive used a cordless drill with the correct hex bit and a flex extension.

i just put the drill clutch on a medium setting, not real stout at all, and just let the drill clutch work on it for a while.

after a little bit (maybe 15-20 seconds) the impact action of the drill clutch, even at a really light setting got the better of it.

if you try it just use your better judgement, and dont set it so high that it can round out the bolthead.

that relentless impact action, even at a very light setting worked like a champ for me.

love your sig by the way, lol.

 

[TargetTerror]

Thanks, all around

 

[TargetTerror]

Well I got it off. All told it was pretty mundane. I put the cylinder in a vice, put a 1 foot pipe over the end of the hex key and applied violence. The allen wrench was bending pretty good, and I was afraid it was going to snap. But it didn't, and not my sight can be drifted.

 

[FlyinBryan]

ah!!!

of course!!!

leverage!!!!


lol.

glad to hear you got it broke loose.

 

[10X]

Never force anything, just get a bigger hammer.

Seriously, sometimes it just takes more torque and brute force is the only answer.

 

[blfuller]

Sometimes a little heat is all you need. Hit it with a heat gun or propane torch.