Krag 1901 sight repair

[1mark]

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?

[butlersrangers]

'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

[Parashooter]

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.

[1mark]

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.

[butlersrangers]

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).