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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #15 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 12:12pm	Print Post
	madsenshooter wrote on Mar 13^th, 2014 at 10:15am: Speaking of 1901 sights, check out this thread:� (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) I don't think I got to the guy soon enough and he's likely broke the pin that keeps the elevation binding knob from being lost.� But it sounds like he was planning on forcing the handguard down over the sight.� Hopefully he didn't get around to that yet. There's a guy who really shouldn't be working on his own Krag! He's using the ole adage "If it doesn't move... get a bigger hammer!" He'll be darn lucky if he doesn't kill someone the first time he takes it to the range, LOL!


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ButterBolt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 26 Location: Ohio Joined: Jan 30^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #16 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 1:48pm	Print Post
	psteinmayer, God watches over fools, drunks and Krag lovers. Here are a couple of pics of my sight that currently resides in a pickle jar with kerosine. I didn't touch, burnish or work on this site yet myself. I need to ask the gun smith if he did any burnishing while replacing the barrell.


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ButterBolt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 26 Location: Ohio Joined: Jan 30^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #17 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 1:54pm	Print Post
	The other photo.


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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #18 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 2:53pm	Print Post
	ButterBolt wrote on Mar 13^th, 2014 at 1:48pm: psteinmayer, God watches over fools, drunks and Krag lovers. I hope you didn't think I was referring to you, Butterbolt. I was actually referring to the guy in the forum that was linked by Madsenshooter. He was trying to remove the windage knob on his 1902 sight so he could snap his handguard over the sight onto the barrel... which is something that should NEVER be done!


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Dick Hosmer KCA Official Member Offline Collector of Springfield Arms, 1865-1915 Posts: 1862 Location: Northern California Joined: Nov 20^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #19 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 3:02pm	Print Post
	That grinding mark is normal - obviously, the last operation in that aspect of sight manufacture/assembly would be - once the lever is working properly - to grind the screw head to radius.


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ButterBolt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 26 Location: Ohio Joined: Jan 30^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #20 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 3:11pm	Print Post
	psteinmayer, I realised that.� I was trying to make a funny. I'm still a KRAG newbie though.�


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #21 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 3:21pm	Print Post
	ButterBolt: Nice photo of interior of your 'new' barrel. That's a good looking 1901 sight and I would expect the lever to release with a light tap of a plastic mallet. The Buffington (1901) rear sight is fun to use at the Range and was the influence for the eventual 1903 Springfield sight. The grind-mark around the 'lever screw' (viewing your sight from the bottom) is normal.


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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #22 - Mar 13^th, 2014 at 8:37pm	Print Post
	No problem... We were all newbies once


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madsenshooter KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1079 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2009	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #23 - Mar 14^th, 2014 at 6:08am	Print Post
	I've moved that bottom screw around some until I got the lever to lock where I wanted it to, right at straight ahead. I had to clean up the contour afterward with a round file. It takes some fiddling around to finally get it to lock where you want, I remember that much.


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ButterBolt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 26 Location: Ohio Joined: Jan 30^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: 1901 Rear Sight - Help Reply #24 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 8:32pm	Print Post
	I soaked my sight in diesel for a day, them blew it out and soaked in Kroil for a day.� Laid it on a cloth covered anvil and tapped it once.� Came right loose as advertised.� Thanks.� The lock screw was loose enough to just screw it out.� I marked it and took it out with its spacer. There is a tiny dark spot here and there on the surfaces that must rub when it moves. I'm rubbing all surfaces with CLP.� Anyone have a thought as to rubbing the rough dark spots with 0000 scotch bright etc.?


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