Well, I just wanted to share my awesome gunsmith skills (if you even want to call it that).
Today, I decided to finish my Centurion Arms C4 rail install. I gave up last night trying to get the rear pin out of my front sight base. Trust me, I tried my hardest to get that handguard cap off without removing the front sight base but it just wasn't possible.
So after banging on this pin for about 30 minutes, I couldn't get it to budge. I got the front pin to move but the rear pin wouldn't. After further inspection, it appeared as if I peened it and at this point, I knew I was screwed. As a last resort, I pulled out the dremel and started to grind away. Finally, after a little bit of grinding, I was able to get the pin to move.
With the front sight base removed, I was left with a pretty dinged up FSB. I was told to sand it down and touch it up with some high temp BBQ/Engine paint. It ended up being a perfect match so now you could never tell I even messed it up in the first place.
Here is my question, I am ordering new pins from BCM due to the one being grind down a little bit. I am anticipating the rear pin to stick out slightly more than it normally would because I had to grind the FSB a little bit on the left side. Will this create any problems or should it be fine? Should I grind a little off of the access pin or should I just leave it as is? I would say I took off a millimeter or a little less than that.
Lesson learned - I will not be doing this again.
Here is a picture of what it looked like prior to spraying it with the high temp paint.
![]()



Reply With Quote





Bookmarks