Sighting In A No. 4 Mk. 1

[gandog56]

I need to adjust the front sight of my Enfield, but there is a strange screw holding the front sight tight. It is like a mirror image of a straight slot screw. with a raised ridge down the middle instead of a slot cut in it. Where can I get a tool to loosen this screw?

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[Alan de Enfield]

I need to adjust the front sight of my Enfield, but there is a strange screw holding the front sight tight. It is like a mirror image of a straight slot screw. with a raised ridge down the middle instead of a slot cut in it. Where can I get a tool to loosen this screw?

Its easier to make one than buy one.
Just get a piece of 'bar' and cut a slot into it so its a 'reverse screwdriver', or get a screwdriver, cut off the blade and cut a slot into the 'shaft' (same as above)

[Edward Horton]

You people need to get out more and pay attention to what the Canadian and Savage bolt disassembly tool looks like and what it can do.

These are modern reproductions of the 'Tool Removing Striker' as used with the SMLE and No4 & 5 Enfield Rifles. The tool is used primarily to adjust the length of the striker by screwing it in or out of the cocking piece, or to remove the striker from the bolt to allow the striker, cocking piece or striker spring to be replaced. To use the tool firstly the bolt head is unscrewed from the bolt, then the striker retaining screw is removed from the cocking piece. Once this has been done the tool (which is hollow) is placed over the tip of the striker and down into the bolt. The lugs on the end of the tool can then engage the collar of the striker and unscrew or tighten the striker as required. This reproduction tool has 2 features not found on the original tool. The ends of the 'T' handle are formed so that one end is a screwdriver for removing the striker retaining screw and the other is fashioned to fit the reverse screw head of the No4 rifle foresight retaining screw.
DS-Solutions Reproduction, Tool Removing Striker, for Enfield Bolts.

[louthepou]

I took an old screwdriver from my tool box that had a buggered-up tip. I cut the tip off. From this newly exposed perpendicular flat face, I used a dremel with a small cut-off disc to cut a shallow slot. Works perfectly and provides me with the fuzzy warm feeling of using a tool that my fancy machinery allowed me to fabricate using my stupendous ingenuity

[jmoore]

Lou's description is spot on! Its quick, cheap, strong, and "green" too.

[jmoore]

Also, long ago I made a front sight tool for SVT-40's which turned out to work as well on No. 4's. You might try one of those SKS/AK sight tools.(Never tried it but who knows?)

[jmoore]

BTW, the AK tool doesn't work.