No32 Mk1 (weekend Job)

[Chris7171]

This is my No32 Mk1 scope that’s in need of a little attention; I wonder what the weekend will hold for it!

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[Simon P]

Does it come with a rifle?

[Chris7171]

The weekend is over and the scope has survived, striped and cleaned reblued and working perfectly, the scope was that dirty that it was like looking through a toilet window, the turrets were sized solid and the recital was missing.
First a full strip, tube dipped and cleaned, cleaned all the lenses, solder in a new recital (headache & a bottle of optrex later), focus the recital and then set the image/parallax with shims. The only thing I did not get around to doing was the outside finish of the turrets I just ran out of time as I wanted to pop do the range to see if it worked, result 2inch group at 100m

[Peter Laidler]

Did you replace the grat post AND crosswire?

[Chris7171]

Yes, what a job! I had to hold the block in models vice and use a big magnifying glass; but boy did I get a king sized headache

[Peter Laidler]

Go on then, how did you point the grat wire..........................?

[Chris7171]

How indeed, well that would be a trade secrete wouldn’t it.
But probably the same way you get yours done on a jewellers lathe and with a hell of allot of concentration!

[Peter Laidler]

10 out of ten. It's not a task that many would do lightly. PM sent