What is a scout regiment telescope with clear optics, correct operation and good leather selling for these days? The one marked as above not the signaler model.
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What is a scout regiment telescope with clear optics, correct operation and good leather selling for these days? The one marked as above not the signaler model.
Hi Viking guy
"How much" really depends on "How Lucky", I have seen them ranging from £300 downwards on a popular auction site, but I am sure you may be able to pick one up at the lower end of the scale in reasonable condition if you stick at the search and bide your time for the gem at the bargin price. Luck plays a part, but looking a little further than military collectors circle can yield the right result.
I recently picked an example up for £80, a little beaten up, needing a bit of TLC, but have managed to free up all the moving parts, resoldering the draw glands where necessary, just needs a new OG lens group which has a crack in the inner lens. Good enough to complete a CES for an L42 or No.4T, but prehaps not one to take on the next sniping mission!
Good luck with your search!
Bushcreature
At the Phoenix show last weekend there were several for sale - £350 would have been a typical price.
Which of the two object lenses are you short of Bushy. There are two. The inner is a double convex while the outer has a matching concave
Hi Peter,
Pretty sure it the inner one, the double convex, though I can't be to 100% sure at the moment. It is proving a swine to get apart. It has had a hard knock in its former life and the sun shade was jammed in the rear position. This I have been able to gently free so it extends to the forward position. The OG lens group is a different story! Stuck fast, a situation no doubt you have encountered more than a few times in your career. I now have red welts where I have tried to unscrew it with a pad of rubber in the palm of the hand for a little extra grip.
Looking more closely I can see both rims of the lens have damage to the outer edges, and they are making some crunching sounds as I attempt to unscrew it. Ehhh!
Any idea's on how to get it apart?
a "Vexed" Bushy
Ps. The OG lens housing is not sitting flush against the tube body so I'm guessing that it has either been screwed in on the "p**s" or been pushed there by the damaging blow.
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The OG lens housing is cross threaded into the main housing after it was dropped. Common problem and you've just got to persevere. But a tip would be to knock the OTHER side down to UNcross the thread.
So common was this problem that during the early 70's there was a suggestion by Tony Bowman that a 1/2" ring of anodized alloy ought to be slipped down around the front body, behind the front shade. THis would prevent the shade from going fully to the rear. As such, because the shade would now always be 1/2" proud of the vulnerable OG lens assembly, it would act as a the proverbial sacrificial lamb when the cack handed clowns in the watch towers dropped them. If youi drop one, it will ALWAYS land OG lens first!
There another useless bit of Lee Enfield knowledge collected from the memory banks
Bingo!
The adage "Old Dog New Tricks" couldn't be further from the truth in this case, a couple of blows from a rubber mallet it slipped back in line and unscrewed with the greatest of ease. Glad to see that the bigger hammer approach works as well in the delicate world of optics, as in that of heavy engineering. That Drink I owe you is now a double! Keep the pearls of wisdom coming. I have included a couple of pictures of the offending item, the concave lens has taken the full brunt of the blow and is cleaved clean in two with a fair portion of the rim broken away also, the convex lens is still in one piece and amazingly undamaged.
I was suprised that the doublet was not cemented together as in the No32, is this the norm ?
Hopefully this Gem will prove useful to the other members of the forum, who find themselves in the same predicament.
Lastly as a man in the know, do you know where I might find a spare lens?
Very many Thanks Peter
Bacon saved!!
The double convex and plano concave come as a matched set as they're made of glass with differing refractive indexes. Some of the later replacements (made by Copyground in High Wycombe incidentally who are now out of business........) were cememted together because........ lets just say that it suited his needs with the glass he was using which gave a corrected figure.............. BUT, you could try to use a second hand double convex and having said that, it COULD be your lucky day because as I said above, generally, it's always the outer that breaks when the cack handed clown drop them and I have a couple of the inner double convexes that you can try. But in order to save having to explain how you do it correctly and optically, you'll have to send me your OG housing and when I'm in the mood, I'll see if either of those I have will mate up correctly with what you've got.
Not saying that it WILL work but it has been known to and it'll save you the £160+ for a new lens set
Peter
I have a scout scope that needs the glands packing. I have tried to get felt into the recesses but it is far to thick. I have also tried moleskin but that is also a tad to thick.
Maybe if I could glue the latter into the recess in the gland piece then mating the tube to the gland would be easier as it just keeps gathering up and preventing the two mating together.
The only material I can get to work is trimmed 4x2 but it is not quite thick enough to make the tubes have some slight resistance when pulling them apart.
Have you any Ideas-What glue could I use to hold the packing material in place and how thick was the Felt Hatters Green you described and where could I get a similar material? Would an old felt hat be about the same thickness?
Any help would be most appreciated.
I'd just try a hat shop or one of these hobby shops. The felkt we used was, as I remember it, just the sort, off the roll, that was used for billiard tables. Certainly it was the same colour. I used to use a rounded stick to keep the stuff in place while inserting the draws
Peter
You have answered by problem.
I was trying to source a dense industrial type felt which I obtained a sample of.
I tried to compress it but yes I can see it is not the correct material.
I will retry again with a much thinner and less dense cloth.
Thanks for the information and may I add that I find your many articles really informative.
Did you glue the material in place or rely on the recess to retain it when inserting the tube?
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Just used the recess in the packing collar as I remember now. I have to say that I did a couple recently and had forgotten how twiddly it was. I was all fingers and thumbs but once you've done it a hundred times, even ?? years ago, it all comes back. And thanks for your kind comments