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B&L Elite roll-down eye cup damage (1 Viewer)

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jremmons

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Hello all,

I have an older pair of 10x42 B&L elites with the roll-down rubber eye cups, and they have split in many places. I was wonder if there was any way to fix this issue or replace the eye-cups?

Thank you,
Justin
 
jremmons said:
Hello all,

I have an older pair of 10x42 B&L elites with the roll-down rubber eye cups, and they have split in many places. I was wonder if there was any way to fix this issue or replace the eye-cups?

Thank you,
Justin
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Phone Bushnell (in Overland Park, KS: 1-800-423-3537) to see if they still have the part. They don't guarantee availability after 5 years of discontinuing a model (unlike the Euro brands which seem to do much better than that, even if they don't promise it) which seems silly for a product that is supposedly a lifetime purchase. If yours is the waterproof version, the old eyecups are easy to replace with new ones by unscrewing them. Not sure about the older model, but I think they just slip on and off.

--AP
 
Alexis Powell said:
Phone Bushnell (in Overland Park, KS: 1-800-423-3537) to see if they still have the part. They don't guarantee availability after 5 years of discontinuing a model (unlike the Euro brands which seem to do much better than that, even if they don't promise it) which seems silly for a product that is supposedly a lifetime purchase. If yours is the waterproof version, the old eyecups are easy to replace with new ones by unscrewing them. Not sure about the older model, but I think they just slip on and off.

--AP
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Alexis,

Thank you for your information. I will attempt to contact Bushnell, although issues with them in the past give me little hope of fixing this issue. Mine are indeed the newer model, stamped with "Waterproof" on the focus knob and with screwing eye-cups.

Regards,
Justin
 
jremmons said:
Alexis,

Thank you for your information. I will attempt to contact Bushnell, although issues with them in the past give me little hope of fixing this issue. Mine are indeed the newer model, stamped with "Waterproof" on the focus knob and with screwing eye-cups.

Regards,
Justin
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Let us know how it goes. I've never had trouble getting eyecups in the past, so long as they were in stock! --AP
 
Any success?

jremmons said:
Hello all,

I have an older pair of 10x42 B&L elites with the roll-down rubber eye cups, and they have split in many places. I was wonder if there was any way to fix this issue or replace the eye-cups?

Thank you,
Justin
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When the eyecups fell apart on my old Elites I could not get replacements so modified some new twist ups from a Bushnell Natureview roof model. Work fine and look good.
 
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