The best place to grow one’s knowledge and confidence, is with a scope that is already in a compromised condition. As a man who has owned and used rifle scopes for over fifty years, but never opened one, I found this video to be very enjoyable. Now to order my own learning scope. Thank you for your good instructions.
Nice info...material for the new springs can be found in the windshield washers, it´s stainless steel 2-3 mm wide and 400 mms long...But now I'm thinking of using a little piece of laptop packaging foam as springs...
Bloody brilliant mate. Got given a scope as a gift and I’ve never had one in bits before so never seen where the spring should have been! Mine was squished into nothing so made a new one and we’re away. Although I used a knitting needle rather than a hacksaw blade 😂
Haven't had a chance to test if it holds zero, but mounts just fine and has nice clear glass. Centered vertically true to a plumb line with the crosshairs which is always a plus!It's a great ru-vid.comUgkxc4K63Fd5LglDMObu7-Bgapxp_ef0W8hE scope. There's no parallax adjustment or focus ring, so may be limited to 3-7x, have to see how it is on the range. Also be aware that the rings are "look through" so you can still use irons, but they are really tall if you only intend to use the optics. On a 22LR no biggie since I'm not shooting competitions or worried about a hard cheek press. Will boresight and range test, if all goes well, I'll leave it at that!
If you just like tinkering with stuff that's fine that's one thing but don't go putting out a video under the guise of it being informational when it's 0 fact based
The concept of what he is doing isn't hard to understand nor is it hard to understand why it should work, unless you do it yourself you'll never know tho now will ya
@@richardried4197 i know, i am referring to scopes also, you said a rimfire will ruin a scope. which rimfire are you referring to that will ruin a scope?
That's just to alleviate the possibility of any moisture inside the tube, in colder temps if there is any moisture it will condense and sit on the lenses as water drops, as long as you reassemble it inside or somewhere where the air has been dehumidified or conditioned then most likely you won't have any kinda issue with condensation, also these cheap scopes most likely do not actually have the air evacuated and the nitrogen pumped in, it's not a cheap setup to do all that so only your more expensive scope brands actually go thru the effort to do all that
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Well it is now 2021 and I have a Nikon BDC Scope. I had it mounted on a 50 Beowulf. It's been on that rifle for 3 years. The lens turned sideways inside the scope the other day when shooting at the range. I can not find a scope repair place where I live. Maybe I'll attempt what you did in this viedo
Wow I give you a lot of credit for spending that time and effort to repair a $40.00 optic you definitely get my respect you seem like a pretty smart guy.
Cheap scopes never had nitrogen or whatever gas put into it in the first place, the process of doing so isn't cheap and these cheaper companies def ain't spending that money to be able to gas up a 30 dollar scope
Thank you for the video it was extremely helpful! My scope is an off brand, Tacfire. It had a different problem. The elevation and windage stud end tips had small metal ridges on the ends (they had not been chamfered) so they scored the cross hair tube and the tube started moving around on the rough surfaces.
One of the best practical movie on YT I have ever seen. OSCAR! You helped me with disassembly of my scope and hopefully at fix. However I super glued with couple drops the junction between original spring and tube. I think it will help. I think tube is "dancing" on that spring during vibrations. If not I will rework with spring leaf as You did. One remark: during reassembly last ring rotation allows correct focus back to origin.
Well mine will be on my porch in the morning. Thanks for the video. It seems as though it may be easier to just return to sender, but you already found the problem and have a solution so I am going to fix it. Even though this scope is just for my .22 LR it will drive me nuts knowing there is an issue. Thanks again CTP
Cool. Great video. Mystery solved. But the worst rifles on scopes are those spring/piston air rifles, they will wreck even the best of scopes. I know, I've done it. They're notorious for it, as I found out after wrecking countless optics. Anyway, it's hard to tell from the video, but it looks like maybe the child safety device (clip) on a bic lighter might be a good spring to use.
Just finished this project. Thank you so much. I have not 0 yet. But just disassembled and clean the Lens helped with clarity so much. I’m amazed so far.
its amazing how everyone now like cheap china made Garbage scopes . you spend $500-$1000 for a rifle & put a Cheap $35 China made garbage scope on it .
haha rgr. Appreciate the video. Read in forums a long while back they put shims in between the scope and ring to make you adjust sight to favor the spring side so everything stayed tighter. Thanks for sharing.
