Derringer Front Sight Install

[1942farmall]

Hi guys,
I'm working on a Derringer rehab and have a silly question...
What's the easiest way to install the small front sight?
Thought about tapping it in with a piece of oak dowel to avoid the top getting dented or flattened.
Maybe an arbor press?
I saw someone note these need soldered. Hoping not. Bluing is done.
I'm probably over thinking this.
Thanks

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Hi guys,
I'm working on a Derringer rehab and have a silly question...
What's the easiest way to install the small front sight?
Thought about tapping it in with a piece of oak dowel to avoid the top getting dented or flattened.
Maybe an arbor press?
I saw someone note these need soldered. Hoping not. Bluing is done.
I'm probably over thinking this.
Thanks

Lots of derringers out there! Need photo of barrel and sight.
Larry

 

[1942farmall]

Sight has a post that presses into the hole. It's an old CVA Jukar kit that was in my late father in laws stuff.
It was badly butchered.

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Make your sight post out of brass. File a groove around it near the base that extends below the top barrel flat. Scuff up the hole in the barrel flat. Mix some epoxy and smear it around the groove in the post. Press into place with a piece of steel over the post using a bench vise. Finish the post to your liking. Easy.

 

[Flintandsteel]

Solder would do the trick and be removable.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Hi guys,
I'm working on a Derringer rehab and have a silly question...
What's the easiest way to install the small front sight?
Thought about tapping it in with a piece of oak dowel to avoid the top getting dented or flattened.
Maybe an arbor press?
I saw someone note these need soldered. Hoping not. Bluing is done.
I'm probably over thinking this.
Thanks

If you want to use the sight you have, just use a vice. Place hard wood below the barrel and above the sight. If you need a arbor press, to me the sight would be too tight. I personally would not mess with epoxy, if the fit is proper, don't need it. That is a derringer, not a hand combat weapon.
Larry

 

[Ponderosaman]

If it was me, I would tap the hole with a bottoming tap and throw a brass rod through a die to screw it in with blue Locktite. Then I would use a diamond file to shape the sight to whatever shape I felt would look good. If you have a lathe you could fabricate the front sight pin to rough in the shape you want or look for a blank from something used for another application like this.

 

[rafterob]

If you have the original sight, they were made to be pressed in. The vice trick works great.