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    Default Krag 1901 sight repair

    I have a Krag 1901 sight. The elevation adjustment screw/knob has broken off.
    1- How do you remove the elevation adjustment or the screw / knob be replaced?
    2- Does someone sell these screws or knobs?
    3- Will one from a M1903 work?
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    '1mark' - You remove the screw and drive out the small pin from the 'top-plate' of the 1901 sight elevation-slide. (The small pin 'captures' the threaded shank via a groove around the lock-screw shank).

    You should then be able to unscrew the fragment of the broken lock-screw.

    I imagine a 1903 Springfield elevation slide lock-screw might work, but, a reproduction is available from S&S Firearms, Glendale, N.Y., for $12.50. (Their catalog is viewable online).

    krag leaf detail-01.JPGsns-1901 lock screw.jpg
    Last edited by butlersrangers; 06-18-2017 at 09:22.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1mark View Post
    1- How do you remove the elevation adjustment or the screw / knob be replaced?
    2- Does someone sell these screws or knobs?
    3- Will one from a M1903 work?
    1. Drive out the tiny cross pin that retains the slide binding screw. 03pins.jpg 1901 slide pin same as 1905 sight shown.
    2. Probably.
    3. Yes.

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    Thanks for all of the information. Took it apart BUT cannot get the screw remains out. I guess I need to find a left hand twist drill bit.
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    FWIW - I have had luck removing the remains of 'screw-shanks' by drilling a small diameter hole into the shank and forcing an appropriate size jeweler's screw-driver bit into the hole. This usually works well for me. (Kind of a square peg in a round hole technique).

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