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    I just cannot believe that you dunked a complete telescope into a tub of whatever it is you dunked it in. Words absolutely fail me - absolutely. I've never seen or heard of such crass.............. nope, no words can even describe my views. I appreciate that knowledge and experience with optical instruments is pretty limited and basic. Nope....., total astonishment...............

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    What is the preferred cleaning method, then?

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    Peter, it isn't as bad as it sounds all points of water ingress were plugged up and sealed with blu-Tac (the white substance in some of the pics) and the rear wasn't under water either as I wasn't sure I could seal it up well enough.

    She came out unscathed thankfully.

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    Peter, does it beat shoving a file handle up the OG shade & a lump of plasticine over the ocular lens & then putting the whole lot (No32 Mk3's IIRC) in a bead blasting cabinet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
    in which case I would suncorite it.
    I doubt very much you could find Suncorite in Australiaicon.

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    I know it’s not the same, but I would have a very hard time distinguishing Suncorite from satin black Cerakote.

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    Finding sunkorite in Oz is academic Mike! It's the last link in the preservation process and only protects what's underneath it. And really any bake-to-cure paint, such as motor cycle engine block or heat resisting car exhaust paint will do admirably as TBone rightly suggests. And from the pictures, it still hasn't got down to white/clean metal. That's just my view as a bit part amateur........... Heavens preserve us against such future examples of......, er....... Nope, I'm never usuallly lost for words. Until yesterday that is.........

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    Peter, as I said earlier, there does seem to be enough meat on it to continue the blasting. Not a piece of kit I would submerge unless of course the RAF dropped me in a river again, even the alledged waterproofed version didn't stop mother nature getting in!!!.
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    There was recently someone in the UKicon selling surplus suncorite on 'that internet auction site' for about twenty quid a litre. A litre of suncorite will refinish a lot of scopes/receivers etc. I don't know if it's still available, nor do I know if he could send it to other countries, but it certainly was for sale.

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    You're right Gil. I have bead blasted one or two telescope tubes in my time and know that even with the most archaic kit you can get a sympathetic finish on fine or valuable things. Plenty of the L1A1's were like that.

    Apparently 'that' sunkorite was well past its sell-by date - by many years so said. But once subject to industrial vibration/shaking and stirring it turned out to be just fine according to my pal

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