Stainless night sights

[kym]

I picked up a used SS SIG 232 with night sights recently. The sights have no finish on them except a couple of small black marks leading me to believe they were once black. Were they? Would they work better in the day if I blacken them? What is the best way to blacken them with out getting any material on the inserts? BTW great gun!

 

[WOODROW]

I hope that I am understanding you properly, the sights themselves are SS? I don't recallever seeing any before. If you want them black then to be sure you get nothing on the slide remove them from the slide, (they should be dovetailed), and then try some type of solvent. Either cold blue or aluminum blue from Birchwood Casey. It may prove even eaiser (and wiser) to go out and buy a new set of sights and have them installed. Good luck.

 

[rcmodel]

I would imagine they were blued or Parked black once.
Black sights work way better and most all of them come that way!

Perhaps the over-zealous previous owner didn't think so, and polished them to match the slide?

I'd just try a Birchwood-Casey Touch-up bluing pin and see if it works.

You cannot hurt the epoxy sealed inserts with anything short of high heat.


rcmodel

 

[Lonestar49]

Paint them Carefully

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Actually, the front sight is fixed to the slide.. it's there to stay (least mine is).

My 232 SL has the same stainless Night Sights, but I took some model black paint and painted, very carefully, around the night sight tube on the front sight, making the front sight jump out in-between the rear, dovetail, stainless sights..

If you mess up, just have a small piece of T-shirt with some paint remover, and quickly take it off and try again..

Works great, looks great..


Ls