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Anyone know how to remove the front sights from a 2240 barrel without damaging sights or barrel.
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:09 pm |
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| My 2250B's front sight just needed a slight tap. |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:54 pm |
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You can tap it off with a hammer and a wood block (so you don't wreck it).
If it still won't budge, get out the hair dryer or heatgun on LOW. Give it a couple seconds then tap it off.
Have at it any way you want if you don't want the sight to keep. |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:21 pm |
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The hair dryer idea is some sort of urban myth and will do nothing- the front sight is not glued on, it is only held in place by friction/tension.
Use an adjustable crescent wrench, wrap a cloth over the sight, adjust the wrench so it contacts the edges of the rear of the sight and use a mallet or hammer to tap it off. Someone or something will need to hold the gun while you do this. |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:45 pm |
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| The added heat will cause the plastic to expand, thus loosening it. In theory at least, feel free to prove me wrong. |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:33 pm |
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| fritz wrote: |
| The added heat will cause the plastic to expand, thus loosening it. In theory at least, feel free to prove me wrong. |
Metal has a greater/faster expansion rate under heat/cooling does plastic- so applying the hair dryer, if anything, will have the sight stick even more as the metal will expand before the plastic. |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:53 pm |
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:49 pm |
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A replacement is only a few bucks from Crosman... Heck I got a few laying around here...
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:59 pm |
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You are right Eric the hairdryer method does not work.However the crescent wrench trick worked great.
Many thanks guys.
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 3:59 pm |
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| I always figured that the plastic would expand quicker. |
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| I always simply use an old belt and wrap around the sight to protect it and then just tap it forward uot of the barrel. has worked ok so far on all th Crosman "22**" guns. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:22 pm |
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why did you want to remove the sight?
just curious... |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:18 pm |
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| AirGunEric wrote: |
The hair dryer idea is some sort of urban myth and will do nothing- the front sight is not glued on, it is only held in place by friction/tension.
Use an adjustable crescent wrench, wrap a cloth over the sight, adjust the wrench so it contacts the edges of the rear of the sight and use a mallet or hammer to tap it off. Someone or something will need to hold the gun while you do this. |
friction/tension = inderferance fit
If that is the case..."I use Boiling water"..but anyways...
If the steel exspands faster than plastic with heat.....Reverse the theoy...
chill it in the freezer...the steel may shrink faster than the plastic....
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