Finally finished a project that took me too long.
I have my ruger 10/22 takedown in the Magpul stock. I added a pic rail in case I wanted to add some form of sight. Problem is that makes the iron sights unusable. Did some searching for a dovetail riser block. Can buy one for the front but not the back that works with elevation. So I decided to get a riser made for the circled area.
Took the two pieces of the site to a local machine shop to have a riser block made. I don't have a mill and we don't have small enough cutters for those at work. The shop wire edm'ed some out for me. Took a couple tries cause I specified too tall of a height.
I also tried tapping the holes with the wrong fluid (3in1 is not tapping fluid) and snapped 6-32 taps off in the holes. Got a coworker to burn them out for me with our couple hundred thousand dollar 5 axis drill press. It's a Makino Edm hole popper.
Finished tapping them tonight and edges broken. Birchwood Casey blueing stuff and installed.
Front sight block purchased from sight manufacturer Williams.
The usable irons.
Mess ups. Blued one is usable and threaded 8-32.
The full package.
I have my ruger 10/22 takedown in the Magpul stock. I added a pic rail in case I wanted to add some form of sight. Problem is that makes the iron sights unusable. Did some searching for a dovetail riser block. Can buy one for the front but not the back that works with elevation. So I decided to get a riser made for the circled area.
Took the two pieces of the site to a local machine shop to have a riser block made. I don't have a mill and we don't have small enough cutters for those at work. The shop wire edm'ed some out for me. Took a couple tries cause I specified too tall of a height.
I also tried tapping the holes with the wrong fluid (3in1 is not tapping fluid) and snapped 6-32 taps off in the holes. Got a coworker to burn them out for me with our couple hundred thousand dollar 5 axis drill press. It's a Makino Edm hole popper.
Finished tapping them tonight and edges broken. Birchwood Casey blueing stuff and installed.
Front sight block purchased from sight manufacturer Williams.
The usable irons.
Mess ups. Blued one is usable and threaded 8-32.
The full package.
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