Peter:
Check out the optical sight for the Wombat...It is a 71 in the Ozzie manual..
I got the info along with a scope from Ozz many years ago. It was part of a EO manual on the Wombat.
I would love to find out what the paint is as I have never removed a harder to remove paint in life.
I have all the chemical "good stuff" for splitting lenses from Methylene Chloride to MEK and they barely touched the silver finish.
The last 71's I converted were a sliver finish and not white.
Before I forget, you were going to share to us "great white unwashed", the secret to removing a rusted turret detent in a Mk.3 scope tube.
If there are more ways than time and rust remover we/I would appreciate it.
I have been reasonably successful in removing them due to some root canal training 60 plus years ago, and access to the equipment.
However, if there is an easier and better way, always willing to learn
Heard from TAFT lately??? He has disappeared off the face of CYMR