Bought a sight pusher kit from eBay for $45 shipped. Installed night sights on my Sig P229 myself and I'm pretty happy about the results. I saw the thread about the "professionally done" job that looked terrible and wanted to offer this option and a lesson learned in the process. I'll probably never pay anyone to push sights again(except Glock since they only cost 60 bucks installed and go through the whole gun at the same time).
Here's the tool:
And here's what the slide looked like with the factory sights:
And here's what it looks like now:
I wrapped the slide in electric tape to protect it from the pusher but still had a place or two where the edge of the pusher cut through and marked the slide. But the blocks of the pusher are aluminum so the marks were transfer of aluminum onto the slide, not scratches or damage to the slide. They cleaned off with a brass bristle brush and gun oil. Then the brass trace came right off with a toothbrush.
The gent with the marked up slide from the other thread might be able to just scrub the marks of if they are transfer as well.
Here's the tool:
And here's what the slide looked like with the factory sights:
And here's what it looks like now:
I wrapped the slide in electric tape to protect it from the pusher but still had a place or two where the edge of the pusher cut through and marked the slide. But the blocks of the pusher are aluminum so the marks were transfer of aluminum onto the slide, not scratches or damage to the slide. They cleaned off with a brass bristle brush and gun oil. Then the brass trace came right off with a toothbrush.
The gent with the marked up slide from the other thread might be able to just scrub the marks of if they are transfer as well.
