Cracked Front Sight Base?

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Rustynuts
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Cracked Front Sight Base?

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My front sight base cracked at the dovetail. Pretty common failure I see due to height of the hooded front sight. Any bump torques it off. I'd like to try soldering on a new one, but seems you can't find these online easily! Any ideas? Don't even see full scrapped barrels from replacements out there.
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I didn't have much luck finding one using Google.

Not sure if you could solder the old one on, using the witness marks on the front sight and (what's left of the base) to align the front sight.

There has to be a cut off barrel end floating around for sale somewhere.
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How hard would it be to make a new one from scratch.......I spent 1/2 hour doing a search and like willj73 I had no luck!
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If I'm not mistaken, the site base is integral to the barrel, and not soldered on.
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millman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:43 pm If I'm not mistaken, the site base is integral to the barrel, and not soldered on.
Do you think it could be repaired by welding....?

Didn't know if it was or not, can't get to my guns right now to check. My son and his wife are sleeping in the spare room where the guns are until tomorrow, when they head back to SC.....!
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ffuries wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 8:11 pm
millman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:43 pm If I'm not mistaken, the site base is integral to the barrel, and not soldered on.
Do you think it could be repaired by welding....?

Didn't know if it was or not, can't get to my guns right now to check. My son and his wife are sleeping in the spare room where the guns are until tomorrow, when they head back to SC.....!
Yep, find a good welder that can still see what he's doing, it should be fixable. I would try it with a 0xy acetylene weld.
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