help with an American Eagle LP08

[sheepherder]

The slider for the sight leaf is on backwards. It is also not engaged with the 'rails' in the base. It's riding on top of them. The chamfer on the slider is facing rearwards instead of to the front...

Is this a different construction artillery tangent sight???

[mdrumbore]

I agree with George, that was one thing that I did question myself when I saw this. As well as I approach anything I'm not knowledgeable on with a bit of caution until I've done some homework.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

The slider for the sight leaf is on backwards. It is also not engaged with the 'rails' in the base. It's riding on top of them. The chamfer on the slider is facing rearwards instead of to the front...

Is this a different construction artillery tangent sight???

I did notice that the sight did not slide as easily as I would expect from the other LP08s I've looked at previous to this. But I didn't take note of that until you mentioned it. haha

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by mdrumbore

I did notice that the sight did not slide as easily as I would expect from the other LP08s I've looked at previous to this. But I didn't take note of that until you mentioned it. haha

It may have been modified...I notice that the slider 'feet' that contact the 'rails' are missing. It could probably be used by removing the leaf pivot pin and reversing the slider.

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

The slider for the sight leaf is on backwards. It is also not engaged with the 'rails' in the base. It's riding on top of them. The chamfer on the slider is facing rearwards instead of to the front...

Is this a different construction artillery tangent sight???

Mine is at the back of the safe, otherwise I'd check to make certain. I notice in the pic that there is a radius scooped from the bottom rear of the sight leaf. Is this the alternative to notching the top front of the barrel extension?

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Mine is at the back of the safe, otherwise I'd check to make certain.

Nah, don't do that...You open the safe and your wife will say "As long as you have it open..."

Here's my DWM artillery rear sight, fully functional although well worn, and a Sarco repro...Hopefully, you can see how the 'feet' latch onto the 'rails' and how the whole leaf/slider is supposed to operate...

[sheepherder]

OMG!!!...Am I wrong???

I have noticed differences in artillery rear sights, and am opening a thread in the Artillery Luger forum to question these differences.

Edit: OK, I'm told that Patrice in the other thread has the correct answer -

Originally Posted by LU1900

You can see on your last pic , the millings are on both side and the original cursor is reassembled in reverse
It's very common that the teeth break : so the miling on other side is the soluce

When the teeth break, the elevator slides back & forth freely, so the shooter turns the elevator around to get some 'grip' on the rails. It won't hold under shooting [there are no indices on that side of the blade], but it has some friction to hold it in place.

Check the teeth on the blade and see if any are missing.

I don't know if there is a 'fix' for this problem (restoring the correct placement of parts & restoring the teeth) but I'm interested enough to check it out...