SIG Romeo Red Dot -- anyone else gotten this "Recall" ?

The recall process of the SIG Sauer Romeo5 is:
_ Send SIG Sauer a photo of your serial number on the bottom of the scope.
_ If your sight is subject to recall, SIG Sauer sends you a compliant battery cover and user manual.

The new cap is still slotted to be opened with a coin but the cap is not knurled to allow it to be twisted off with the fingers.

I also have *other products* using CR2032 batteries without the elaborate warnings required of SIG Sauer red dot sights.
 
Okay, take my word for it...JUST DON'T!

Unfortunately, I'm generally a compliant, "I should really do the recall for future owners type" so I started to get the requisite serial number. Having a spare cap couldn't hurt, right? Unfortunately, it's not as simple as unmounting the Romeo5. To see the serial #, you also have to remove the 4 screws from the "elevation mount" shown below. Okay, PITA, but doable, right? Well, in remounting, I set my torque wrench for 15 inch lbs and that's apparently too much for the soft aluminum body, because I stripped the first screw! The other three held with 12 inch lbs.

So now, I've damaged the optic...permanently, trying to do the right thing. Boy are they getting a piece of my mind!

Wanna know the worst part? My serial number ends in "H" so mine wasn't part of the recall. And now, looking at the actual recall website, it specifically says to torque those screws to 8 inch-lbs!

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If a weapon or red dot is left out for toddlers someone needs their head examined.
Just because Sig offers doesn't mean jump.
We have had one worried it's mandatory and at least one stripped screw for a free cap.
Please don't panic. Sig is just covering their behind and that's fine.
 
SIG's "recall" is nothing more than their effort to comply with an absurd nanny government regulation.

Most shooters will simply think, "If it ain't broke, I ain't gonna fix it."

SIG is going to be stuck with tens of thousands of "compliant" battery caps.
 
What a ridiculous recall. When I saw it online a week ago I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1st.
 
I have two. Don't need the recall. My dog cannot open the safe, pull the guns out, open the battery cover and eat the batteries.
 
Someone needs to print up some stickers to protest this latest beclownment of our society.

Something like: !DELICIOUS! CANDY BATTERY. CONSUME WITH ALACRITY.
 
I have two. Don't need the recall. My dog cannot open the safe, pull the guns out, open the battery cover and eat the batteries.
I think you're going to have to ask yourself if you're really committed to training this dog of yours... :)

Larry
 
Someone needs to print up some stickers to protest this latest beclownment of our society.

Something like: !DELICIOUS! CANDY BATTERY. CONSUME WITH ALACRITY.
I believe Duracell (and maybe other makers) put a sour tasting coating on these lozenge-sized batteries.


I get it, after four kids I can say they certainly can get into stuff. My mom quit smoking then got crazy-hooked on Nicorette. During a visit with the grandkids, she kept a handful of the lozenges in her sweater pocket. I guess a few fell out when she sat on the couch, and my 2 year old daughter found and ate them all.

A little while later she nearly passed out and started vomiting, we called 911 and the ambulance took her to Loma Linda Hospital, a University/level 1 trauma center with pediatric specialists.

She was the first nicotine OD they have ever had, we had instructors and student-doctors parade through the room to examine her for quite a while. (I also had to go through the Child Protective Services interrogation as to how-why my toddler was brought in for a “drug overdose.” All ok, but no fun nonetheless.)

As for the recall, the three Romeo sights that I have will remain as-is.

Stay safe.
 
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