Custom Compact 6x25 (1 Viewer)

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jimb100

Member

• Aug 8, 2015

• #1

My Custom Compact 6x25 with rubber eye cups has gotten quite loose in the central hinge. My pair with the lift up plastic eye cups has the normal tension.

Is it possible for me to adjust the tension in the central hinge?

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2015

• #2

:hi:
Welcome to Bird Forum JimB!

Most binoculars have a blind cap on the front of the hinge which can be removed to tighten the hinge. My 7x26 Custom Classic does not have one so my guess is yours doesn't either.

I suggest you wait a bit for "Optic Nut" to respond to this. He works on binoculars and I think he has a bunch of these Custom Classics. You can find a lot of his comments down in the "Others" thread.

Bob

 

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OPTIC_NUT

Well-known member

• Sep 1, 2015

• #3

Shucks...sorry I missed this.

I have the 6x25s now...
and they have that front cap and pin-wrench holes.
The cap is smooth...it takes narrow pliers with a rag cushion to turn it.

Frequently, what you're looking for hides under the name-plate/medallion,
if you really don't have a front cap of any kind.
To pop the medallion off, slowly rotate the focuser to look for a little
hole to poke the medallion from the back. It just takes a tiny dot of
E6000 to tack it back on. If the metal bends you can press it flat again
easily. hopefully you will see a slot or pin-wrench holes under it,
or both.

 

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jimb100

Member

• Sep 2, 2015

• #4

Thanks, I'll take a look at it tonight.

 

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brentwood

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• Sep 23, 2015

• #5

I bought one of these yesterday! I thought it was a 7x26, but it wasn't until I got them home that I realised they were the rarer 6x25. They also had a loose hinge and I was able to remove the cap and tighten them up. Lovely! They wanted as much as $19.95 from the VV Boutique, but as it was 'old folks day' -30% off, I got them for $15.xx!

 

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jimb100

Member

• Sep 24, 2015

• #6

brentwood said:

I bought one of these yesterday! I thought it was a 7x26, but it wasn't until I got them home that I realised they were the rarer 6x25. They also had a loose hinge and I was able to remove the cap and tighten them up. Lovely! They wanted as much as $19.95 from the VV Boutique, but as it was 'old folks day' -30% off, I got them for $15.xx!

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That's a great deal, congrats!

 

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OPTIC_NUT

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2015

• #7

Hey...tada! Great deal, and tightened.
Still one of my favorites.
Tremendous eye relief for such a little binoc.
And the detail is fine.

 

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John Dracon

John Dracon

• Sep 24, 2015

• #8

That 6x25 makes many people wonder about all "the giant leaps forward" in optics today. I keep one at my kitchen window. I call it my voyeur binocular. Whether its spying on a neighbor who is illegally feeding deer next to my home, or looking at an osprey perched 100 feet away on a lamp post (not a common occurrence) or counting the number of Hungarian partridges scurrying by my window (there were nine in that brood the other day), that little binocular simply just performs.

John

 

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jimb100

Member

• Sep 25, 2015

• #9

John Dracon said:

That 6x25 makes many people wonder about all "the giant leaps forward" in optics today. I keep one at my kitchen window. I call it my voyeur binocular. Whether its spying on a neighbor who is illegally feeding deer next to my home, or looking at an osprey perched 100 feet away on a lamp post (not a common occurrence) or counting the number of Hungarian partridges scurrying by my window (there were nine in that brood the other day), that little binocular simply just performs.

John

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I picked up a 50+ year old pair of B&L Zephyr this week and was wondering the same thing.

 

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Bencw

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• Sep 25, 2015

• #10

Would have to agree, I have a 6x25 compact, the one with the hard plastic pull out eye cups, there some cleaning marks to the objective coatings but it still performs great. Earlier this year there was a USA made B&L Zephyr 7x for sale in the USA on the auction site, it had never been used, brand new, in the box, mint condition, all the straps,case etc all still in their plastic bags like straight out of the shop 50 years ago, with me being the UK, it finished about 3am so I left a pretty high bid last thing at night, it wasn't high enough, it went for more than £380 sterling, I should have stayed up, doubt another one like that will come along.

 

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OPTIC_NUT

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• Sep 28, 2015

• #11

The Zephyr's optics are probably the most extensively copied in the classics.

The Bushnell Featherlights and most of the 7x35 short Featherweights under various names are right
up there with the Zephyr. Featherlights are independent-focus like the early Zephyrs.
They had the new (for then) hard coatings.

The Fujinon Meibo 7x35 of the 50s is actually another Zephyr clone, its
special deviations being color-correction in the coatings and extra baffling.
It's like looking at a Kodachrome slide.

My favorite descendant is the Tower Featherweight. Very tough and light for a center-focus.
Wollensak even re-labeled the Tower as their "Escort". It was also re-labeled "Cosmos Coated",
with a deluxe thick shiny grey finish.
The Tower design was tweeked a bit in the US and built by Ofuna.

There were super-rugged extra-precise 'lightweights' from Mayflower, Adams Precision, Optex-Delux.
Nicest field of all, but a lot heavier.

So, there are many children of the Zephyr with those lovely rich comfortable optics,
to ease your auction experience.

 

Last edited: Sep 28, 2015