No 32 mk 3

[vintage hunter]

Jim, you're butting in and blowing this whole thing way out of proportion when it had nothing to do with you in the first place. Perhaps I could've worded that first comment a bit different but felt Peter would understand what I was getting at by remembering the hand written comment he added on the back of the worksheet when repairing my L1A1 scope a year ago.
If Peter doesn't want to do restorations anymore that's his prerogative and his services will be greatly miss but we No.32 owners would expect such an announcement to come from him, not you.
Paul87buick, my apologies for wrecking your thread, that was not my intent.

[CINDERS]

Guess P.L is sick of them I suppose after doing them and other things in the Army one got tired of the profession I know I did after 17.5 years as a hire crane operator in the game and over my career after lifting 0000's of tonnes of gear in all sorts of crappy places and all sorts of weather and plenty of scares in between I hung up the levers. Guess it is the way of things and if it is the way of things then we had better find an equally talented instrument person/s to fix the 32's but one thing you cannot do is to put P.L's experience and innovation into their heads.
So nurse your scopes and hope that either P.L has a change of heart or a Grandmaster of scope fixeruperers arrives.

Post add;
Yes and compasses are just compasses Villiers as I found out sending my Mk III to a firm that said they could overhaul it, they smashed the bezel glass and then sent the effing thing back saying sorry and did not even try to compensate me Oh! yes they did send back with the compass all the broken glass.....It ain't necessarily soooo (The compass remains unfixed to this day)

[villiers]

Scopes are just .... scopes. And here in Germany (where I live) there´s a plethora of scope experts who are willing to repair almost any type of military scope. Maybe it´s because so many different manufacturers were situated in Germany and Austria. Perter L´s expertise was of particular value as he´d spent so many years specialising on this specific model.

[Peter Laidler]

I just don't like the idea of me being advertised by others as the scope repairer or repairer of anything. And please, please don't think I do or ever take any offence about anything. I don't! So no need to apologise or argue BAR or VH or anyone.

Just don't volunteer me or advertise me - or even mention me!

(VH. When you've done a few thousand+ telescopes, the numbers and types all just blurr together so remembering a particular one is a non-starter. In fact I never even get to know who's tele I'm dealing with)

[henry r]

or even mention me!

so from now on when it comes to no32's you will be "he who shall not be named, grand high poobah of mid to late 20th centuary british scope fixerupperers" or "that guy who wrote the book" for short.

is that acceptable?

[Peter Laidler]

I realise that you're tongue in cheek Henry but I'm sure there's a way of not volunteering me

[henry r]

for what it is worth, i asked around and will get my reticle done locally by a bloke with no32 experience, when the time comes.

[CINDERS]

henryr read add on Post #12 make sure whoever you get has the right stuff as if it goes pear shaped its gunna cost you big time to rectify it and thats if the Myst-roe will fix another's errors, I am not trying to say your local is not up to the challenge but from what I have read these last few years on here is there are certain challenges with the 32's but being a Mk III is not the worst of them I guess.....

[henry r]

to be honest, by local i mean he is in sydney, 550+km away but he is still in NSW so that is local compared to shipping one to england.

i certainly hope he is up to it, but i have heard his name mentioned a few places as being able to do them and having done restorations on them. i haven't talked to anyone first hand who has had him restore one, but i did talk to another member here who has a friend that had a couple done and was happy with his work.

[paul87buick]

The thread is not ruined I am happy were still on the same subject.