For The Optics Tinkers Amongst Us (1 Viewer)

pete_gamby

Birds? What Birds?!

• Oct 4, 2017

• #1

I spotted this tool in Astronomy Now magazine and decided to get some for our service team:

http://www.365astronomy.com/365astronomy-adjustable-lens-tool.html

The service guys and gal are all over the moon with their new toys and are finding multiple uses for it besides its primary design purpose which is to help with the removal of the retaining rings that typically hold objective lens cells in place. Prior to this they'd been using a variety of custom-made tools and filed out bits of metal!

So if you want to dismantle, tighten the hinge of or otherwise generally invalidate the warranty of your new binos even faster than before, get one

Alternatively, if you have an old bino that needs a good internal clean, this might help you out.

Cheers, Pete

 

Troubador

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• Oct 4, 2017

• #2

Thoughtful of you to post this Pete, many thanks, and this device looks highly suitable for all kinds of home surgery too :eek!:

Lee

 

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ailevin

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• Oct 4, 2017

• #3

Troubador said:

Thoughtful of you to post this Pete, many thanks, and this device looks highly suitable for all kinds of home surgery too :eek!:

Lee

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LOL!

 

Loud Green Man

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• Oct 4, 2017

• #4

I guess it's perfect for those suffering sleepness nights after having shone a torch inside their bins!

LGM

 

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jan van daalen

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• Oct 4, 2017

• #5

Got a similar one and use it since years for repairs on donated OLD bins for the second life optics project.
Only problem is.......when the retaining ring won't move, which it often doesn't, the pins shoot loose and scratches very ugly over the lens.
So, don't try this at valuable bins:-C
Or do and than donate your bino

Jan

 

Troubador

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• Oct 5, 2017

• #6

Loud Green Man said:

I guess it's perfect for those suffering sleepness nights after having shone a torch inside their bins!

LGM

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I like it :-O

Lee

 

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ceasar

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• Oct 5, 2017

• #7

It can be used as a Pin Wrench to tighten the loose central hinges of some binoculars if said binoculars have a removable blind cap on the front of their hinges as some (but not all of them) do.


Bob

 

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typo

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• Oct 5, 2017

• #8

Pete,

Surely your guys deserve better? Like this Thor labs lens spanner (wrench) for example.
https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=SPW801

Or perhaps this one
http://optoalignment.com/shop/uncategorized/spro100-optics-spanner-wrench/

 

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BruceH

Avatar: Harris Hawk

• Oct 5, 2017

• #9

This is a good tool for Nikon EDG owners to have in order to tighten up the hinge tension.

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=342391

 

WJC

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• Oct 5, 2017

• #10

'Must be a nice life! Navy Opticalmen had to machine and harden their own--one of 6 tools we had to machine before being turned loose on the real Navy. The separation was achieved as the pin parts were slid along 3 steel shafts. When I saw how the wrenches of some others kept sliding past where it was supposed to be, I was not impressed. So, when the "A" School chief was out, I took one of those pieces, which I would use in the middle of my wrench, placed it in a vice and gave it a whack with a 1 pound ball peen. I wasn't bent enough for the chief to notice. But, it WAS bent enough for the setting to remained wherever I put it for the next 41 years and counting. :cat:

Bill