Pictures inside a scope

[pac11]

I took my weaver apart tonight (all but the objective) very simple workings but a bit of a bear to slide out the erector assembly.  Lots good news for me though. This thing would be very easy to freeze, there is no wear on the bottoms of the turrets and the little "balls" that are set into the erector tube that would wear the turret bottoms are also perfect. Same goes for where the leaf springs push, nice and smooth.

Also I think I found my problem, the socket (for lack of a better term) that's at the back of the erector tube that lets the lens assembly pivot around in there seems to be a bit loose. I think I can make a tool to peen it over to tighten it up. The leaf springs that push the assembly against the turret bottoms and the coil spring that's inside the erector assembly are much stronger than I expected. That coil spring and it's clip looks like it's going to be fun to get back in.

Mike

[cyanchycki]

Way to go Mike..................  You BRAVE SOUL...........

Do yourself proud and figure out the fixing process and you just may have a SMALL market here in Canada for freezing them there optics.  The only thing I guess is the purging  with Nitrogen???

Calvin

[pac11]

I tightened up that joint today and I'll stick it back together for the club match on sat but I'm going to get an adjustable mount figured out, maybe buy one of Gene Buky's then freeze it.

 To freeze it just silver solder up that goofy joint then make a crescent ring to center the lens carrier in the erector tube (if those are the right words) then epoxy that together.

I do have a bottle of nitrogen but would it even be worth purging it?  Looking at all these O-rings that seat on threads... I have a hard time believing it's air tight.

I would think it would take a while to get one of Gene's mounts out of the states? 


Mike

[Tony Gauthier]

Competition scopes don't need nitrogen. You don't subject it to the conditions that a hunting scope is.

[bullzeye]

i am sure all competition scopes are nitrogen filled or at least some other enert gas. if not scope will fill with moisture or fog up. nitrogen does not "sweat". not only that nitrogen also helps the lense coatings work better. aren't b/r competitions shot whether it rains,snows, high humidity you know like hunting conditions.