Bad optics plate drift

[trukinbear]

I put a optics plate on my S&W M&P pistol. It mounts in the dovetail where the adjustable sights were, and has one fastner reused that stabilized the adjustable sight from the bottom in a slotted hole to allow adjustment. The plate slides incredibly easy into the dovetail. I loctite the fastner and 4 shots later the plate is so loose that it slides side to side in the adjustment slot. What can I do here, loctite the dovetail? Which loctite? Ideas

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[roseburger]

Blue for something you want to remove like grip screws. Red for something you don't want to remove, like grip screws. Purple for you're never getting it off again for something like grip screws.

 

[Tlock]

Throw the cheesy plate away and have the slide milled

 

[roseburger]

Throw the cheesy plate away and have the slide milled

Or you could do that.

 

[1775usmc]

Plates suck. Especially $20.00 plates.

Direct mil is the correct way to

 

[Nosferatu]

I never used the stupid plastic plates on my M&P 10mm and got a C&H Precision plate instead.

Several thousand rounds so far the the RMR has yet to go anywhere.

If yours doesn't have the S&W factory optic milling, send you slide off to get milled specifically for the optic you're using.

Or trade it for a P320. I heard those are so good you barely have to touch them.

 

[Tlock]

Or trade it for a P320. I heard those are so good you barely have to touch them.

I must say.....the shots never stop coming!!!!




Even after you stop squeezing the trigger...

 

[Tarawa86]

I never used the stupid plastic plates on my M&P 10mm and got a C&H Precision plate instead.

Several thousand rounds so far the the RMR has yet to go anywhere.

If yours doesn't have the S&W factory optic milling, send you slide off to get milled specifically for the optic you're using.

Or trade it for a P320. I heard those are so good you barely have to touch them.

I tried using the S&W plastic plate; it got loose every time I took it to the range (has the factory optics milling). Got the C+H Precision Optics Adapter Plate and used blue 243 on the screws. Puppy is solid now.

 

[trukinbear]

Throw the cheesy plate away and have the slide milled

Too thin

 

[trukinbear]

I never used the stupid plastic plates on my M&P 10mm and got a C&H Precision plate instead.

Several thousand rounds so far the the RMR has yet to go anywhere.

If yours doesn't have the S&W factory optic milling, send you slide off to get milled specifically for the optic you're using.

Or trade it for a P320. I heard those are so good you barely have to touch them.

Not plastic, but I hear you. Not available optics ready, and too thin to mill. Not my pistol, it's my grandson's who suddenly decided he wanted a red dot. I have a safe full of P320s

 

[Tlock]

Not plastic, but I hear you. Not available optics ready, and too thin to mill. Not my pistol, it's my grandson's who suddenly decided he wanted a red dot. I have a safe full of P320s

Sell it and buy the kid a glock, cut the slide and put a rmr on it! Happy birthday grandson!!!

Problem solved

 

[titsonritz]

Blue for something you want to remove like grip screws. Red for something you don't want to remove, like grip screws. Purple for you're never getting it off again for something like grip screws.

Purple is low strength - Geissele calls for it on their optic mount, I don't bother with it.
Blue is medium strength - I use for anything with threads I don't want rattling loose except gas block screws.
Red is high strength and high temperature - for gas block screws

Throw the cheesy plate away and have the slide milled

This is the correct answer.

 

[trukinbear]

Sell it and buy the kid a glock, cut the slide and put a rmr on it! Happy birthday grandson!!!

Problem solved

If Glock made a pistol in 30SC maybe, but he's spent a ton of money on setting up his progressive loader to load 30SC, has the carbine too, and his sister, my son, and partially me have all switched to 30SC. I have the Lupold micro DPP, but the dovetail is wrong. I guess I'll have to get him the Shield Plus the rest of us carry as it is optics ready, and nicer to shoot IMHO

 

[Tlock]

If Glock made a pistol in 30SC maybe, but he's spent a ton of money on setting up his progressive loader to load 30SC, has the carbine too, and his sister, my son, and partially me have all switched to 30SC. I have the Lupold micro DPP, but the dovetail is wrong. I guess I'll have to get him the Shield Plus the rest of us carry as it is optics ready, and nicer to shoot IMHO

Just saying if your passing out guns id like a 30sc too......

 

[roseburger]

Just saying if your passing out guns id like a 30sc too......

You have no shame! You just keep whoring yourself out for a Sig.

 

[trukinbear]

Just saying if your passing out guns id like a 30sc too......

The EZ is $300 cheaper in 30SC at $229, and the Shield Plus is $269 - for grins I pawned mine and they loaned me $450 so I believe they'll hold value. If not they're cheap

 

[trukinbear]

30SC continues to impress me. In FMJ CCI Blazer it moves a 115gr projectile 5 fps faster then the 9mm CCI Blazer from a 4" barrel. 5 feet faster is no big deal, I'd call it equal, but out of my grandson's 16" barrel carbine it's a different story with the 30SC out pacing the 9mm by over 150 fps. He's done some incredible reloads, pushing the little SC into .357 Magnum territory.

 

[Tlock]

30SC continues to impress me. In FMJ CCI Blazer it moves a 115gr projectile 5 fps faster then the 9mm CCI Blazer from a 4" barrel. 5 feet faster is no big deal, I'd call it equal, but out of my grandson's 16" barrel carbine it's a different story with the 30SC out pacing the 9mm by over 150 fps. He's done some incredible reloads, pushing the little SC into .357 Magnum territory.

If factory ammo ever becomes $0.19 to $0.21 per round I might buy one and mess around with it. The 9mm is still my go to, with 357 sig close behind. 357 sig is just spendy

 

[Nosferatu]

When they make a .30x25 Dillon, my interest will be piqued.

 

[po18guy]

Have a ball peen hammer and flat nosed punch? Peen the wide edge of the dovetail on the plate. Thus, you create an interference fit in the slide's dovetail. May have to use a sight pusher to mount it.