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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 4362906" data-attributes="member: 2469">A sturdy vise, some smooth jaw faces, a few sets of punches, nylon or Delrin round or square rod, and some small hammers is about as universal as you can get. (Oh good files, even a diamond file for those hard sight, like someone else mentioned.) If you don’t know what you’re doing or you’re impatient, you can damage a slide with the sight removal tools. Slide rails weren’t designed with forces perpendicular to the direction of travel in mind. They can work well for making small sight adjustments, but a really tightly fitted sight might be too much. Plus, being able to hold the pushing tool firmly while moving the sight is helpful. And you can start a sight crooked in the dovetail and really make a mess if you start cranking on it with the sight pusher. Dave Dawson of Dawson Precision has some great videos of sight installation. I recommend watching them.</blockquote>