Original Adjustable Rear Sights Stake Marks ???

[22mike]

How were original adjustable rear sights staked ? Any photos ? TIA

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[mpd1978]

Check out the first pic in this thread, its kind of dark, but you can see the stake marks.
How about an Inland

[22mike]

So the stake marks were just on the right side of the sight ?

[usgicollector]

IIRC the early ones were on the right and left of the front of the dovetail. Also not just round staking was used. Inland for a while used the rectange staking.
Here is my M1A1:
Dave

[frankderrico]

Thanks Dave nice pic, I have a simular thread about 3 pages back on a 3.9 mil IBM that has a stake almost the same as your GM jumper.....Frank
P.S. I have a 5.? mil Inland M1A1 that I'll have to get out to check the stake marks. Doing it in the A.M.

[22mike]

With so much variation in stake marks how does one tell if it is original stake marks ???

[mpd1978]

Take note of the first picture in the link I posted. Notice the "through the finish" staking on the rear dovetail, also note the white metal visible in the proof firing punch on the reciever-the pic is a little blurry, but you can see it. Look for either white, bare metal or burnished metal in the staking.

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Why Were Carbines Factory Parkerized When ALL USGI Thompsons' Were Factory Blued?

Check out post 21 of this thread. Shows two different types of staking on one carbine.

[usgicollector]

The white metal is true on all makers but inland.
Some, like mine above, were finished with the sight on like the earlier flip sight guns, and some were done after the finish was applied. IIRC CCNL #361 has the article on the 3rd inland block and this is discussed.
Dave