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Nowdays most smiths will tell you to have a dovetail cut into the slide so you can change fronts sights easily. If you do not want to go that route you will need to get a new stake type sight and have it installed by a man who understands the proper method. The reason the factory sight became loose is because it was not installed properly and restaking it will only hold it for a while. The mortise in the slide has to be relieved inside so the tenon on the new sight can be swaged and flow into it. Silver soldering is absolutely unnecessary and will require the slide to be refinished. I have staked front sights for 20 years and never had one come off. Colt has used a couple of different tenon sizes so you need to remove the old sight and measure it to make sure you buy the right size.
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