This sounds like a dumb question, "What fits the head of the screw that holds the front sight on a Ruger New Model Hunter stainless Single Six .22 revolver?"
I have 4 or 5 sets of all kinds of hex and Torx (English and metric, security and regular, tiny and large) bits, and I thought surely one of them would fit it---until I got to looking.
Mind you I am a mechanical engineer and have been doing work on lots of things for 50 years.
I finally got a 10x magnifier and a good light.
It looks like a perfectly round hole (cylindrical, about 1/8-inch in diameter, 3/8-inch deep) in the head of the fastener.
Nothing seems to fit the hole in the head of the fastener.
The sight and fastener appear to have been painted (black) after assembly; so I am wondering if maybe the paint filled the sides of the hex.
I am trying to remove it so I can install some Williams Fire Sights.
Any insight would be appreciated.
I am also having trouble getting the rear sight off as well!
I thought that would be a piece of cake. The Williams Fire Sight instructions say "remove the windage screw and line up the right side of the blade and carefully remove".
Well I removed the windage screw and the blade moves off slightly to the right, but get it out I cannot.
What the heck does it mean "line up the right side of the blade"?
Makes no sense to me at all.
It does not move in any direction.
I Googled "remove Ruger single six sights" and got nothing but ads for aftermarket sights.
I could find no video showing how to do it.
Not even a MidwayUSA video.
Thanks for any help.
I have 4 or 5 sets of all kinds of hex and Torx (English and metric, security and regular, tiny and large) bits, and I thought surely one of them would fit it---until I got to looking.
Mind you I am a mechanical engineer and have been doing work on lots of things for 50 years.
I finally got a 10x magnifier and a good light.
It looks like a perfectly round hole (cylindrical, about 1/8-inch in diameter, 3/8-inch deep) in the head of the fastener.
Nothing seems to fit the hole in the head of the fastener.
The sight and fastener appear to have been painted (black) after assembly; so I am wondering if maybe the paint filled the sides of the hex.
I am trying to remove it so I can install some Williams Fire Sights.
Any insight would be appreciated.
I am also having trouble getting the rear sight off as well!
I thought that would be a piece of cake. The Williams Fire Sight instructions say "remove the windage screw and line up the right side of the blade and carefully remove".
Well I removed the windage screw and the blade moves off slightly to the right, but get it out I cannot.
What the heck does it mean "line up the right side of the blade"?
Makes no sense to me at all.
It does not move in any direction.
I Googled "remove Ruger single six sights" and got nothing but ads for aftermarket sights.
I could find no video showing how to do it.
Not even a MidwayUSA video.
Thanks for any help.