OMG !!! DISASTER !!!
Well, not really a disaster. Just more like an annoyance.
When I took the Swedish meatball Luger out and shot it, I broke the cardinal rule of artillery Lugers:
[even though this is not really an artillery Luger] Never fire it without securing the rear sight!!!
I forgot to wire/cable-tie the rear sight slider so it wouldn't move. As a result, the slider button broke...And chipped teeth on the sight leaf...
Luckily, Numrich, Liberty Tree, and some guy on eBay all had the parts necessary to fix the Swedish M94 carbine rear sight.
Here's the repair, with pictures!
1. Here's the broken sight in place. It slides back & forth without depressing the slider button. It worked fine before I shot it.
2. The first and fourth teeth on the sight leaf are broken off.
3. Here's the slider. It's not clear but the tip of the button is broken off. I think the broken tip is what broke the teeth off during firing. It probably got jammed in the slider.
4. I got a 'new' slider & leaf from Liberty Tree. As mentioned in another forum/thread, I've gotten Mauser carbine nose caps from Liberty Tree and they were all excellent quality for 100+ year old guns.
Next is disassembly and cleaning. I dipped it in lacquer thinner and cleaned off all the cosmoline. Then brushed it with a brass brush. Looks pretty good.
5. I clamped the 'new' sight in my mill and put a mini-screwdriver in the quill and broke the limit screw loose. This was a nice unbuggered screw and I didn't want to bugger it.
6. I removed the screw and slid the slider off and clamped it in my mill vise. A pointer chucked in the quill and centered in the 'V' notch gave me the center for my Patridge notch.
7. I milled the 'V' notch with a 1/8" end mill down to the bottom of the 'V'.
8. The leaf was then clamped in the vise and the 'V' notch centered once again.
Continuing...
9. Milling the sight leaf Patridge notch, again down to the bottom of the 'V'.
10. Here's the modified Swedish M94 carbine rear sight, showing the new Patridge notches.
11. Drifting out the broken rear sight.
12. 'New' Liberty Tree rear sight installed.
I can't find any wire here, I'll have to make a trip to Ace Hardware and get a roll of thin steel wire to secure the sight when firing.
But I think this style rear sight is a mistake. If it's fired with the sight in the up position, it will flop back and forth during recoil & battery. I believe that is why the artillery Lugers used a stationary ramp rather than the folding leaf. Even then, the artillery Luger rear sights broke teeth and slider button tips.
So this fantasy Luger is pretty much relegated to display status. It'll be another 'Kim Kardassian' Luger; pretty but useless.
Since it's only a pretty face, my next project will be a display stand for it. Something simple. Like Kim.