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Don't Bother 20/02/2018
This thing is a boat anchor at best.
While it may remove some sights, not a chance on an HK VP9.
Glocks, sure. 1911's, yes... But can be tricky. S&W M&P, yep.
However, the slide wants to twist while pushing. Yes it is true you can use shims and support the slide with leather, but at a cost of $500+, why should you have to.
Over priced & under performing. 18/02/2015
I was given this to see how to improve it. It will install some sights, but won't do a very good job of fine adjustment. It won't install some sights very well at all, either. This tool left so much to be desired, we went looking for something better. I work on all things precision from guns to jewelry, to guitars, to time pieces. I finally ask a friend to make one with a fine thread adjustment secondary slide mechanism, and a selection of sight moving blocks. He is an aerospace precision tool and tool & die maker. He was not in a good mood that day, and I got his "don't bother me" price and it was still just over $2,000 for TWO markedly better products. This included several adapter blocks for various sights, frames and slides. This a bespoke price for a mass produced product. Acme thread is far from hard to come by. That is that "special square thread" used on these tools and millions of vises & clamps around the world. Machining the aluminum blocks? Jay had the second tool done in under 3 hours. He even added replaceable bushings for the acme thread, and a lash adjustment. I am not a moron, and I know machinists, tool & die makers, and CNC operators. This product was the subject of a lot of ridicule among them. The very second you put the word "universal" on a product, it had better be really super special, or it will likely do a universally mediocre job on everything. This falls into the latter category. It installs some sights. (some sights, not all). Once you have removed the old sights and have the new ones on, you will need another tool to perfectly align the new sights. The treads on the push block are huge. You can move the sights, but there is no finessing anything. It is okay for shoving some stubborn old sights out, but that is about the extent of its true usefulness. and even there you will be wanting some special adapters for front dovetail sights. For $670 this is a monumental disappointment. I can see why I got it handed down to me. I also got to design the new tool too! I have designed several specialized tools. I wind up with a collection of ill conceived junk in the process, and a laundry list of suggested improvements and complaints. This thing was pricy and limited enough, I decided I should speak up. IF you think you will pull enough sights that this will pay for itself, go for it. If you can make working drawings, maybe go find a machinist or a tool & die maker. I buy that Acme Thread in 10 foot lengths for special clamps and other tools. This tool is so unremarkable, I wish the Chinese would make an $89 knock off. $670? I could make a hydraulically driven tool for that kind of money. The only thing this does really well, is easily force off old sights provided they will engage the slider block. We are sending our new tool and it's accessories off to an attorney, and looking into a patent. Personally, I have zero interest in any patent royalties from what I came up with. I know better than to expect any return on an investment for a patent on a tool for a very limited market. I have been down that road before. I am not passionate enough about the marketability of it to throw my money into that pot. I'd rather spend my time on the range than in court defending a patent that will expire before it makes back enough money for the expenditure in time and money. I have some new ideas for an even better version, and I might feel better about it, but I may never get around to it. This Meprolight tool rams sights on and off quite fast, but the designers were not looking at exactly what types of sights it would be required to work with. That is painfully obvious! It is fairly well made, but not overly well designed.
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