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Can you reccommend some generic rain guard and lens covers for my Nikon bins? (1 Viewer)

andreiraevsky

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Hi,

I am the happy owner of a pair of Nikon ATB 8x42 Monarch binoculars. These are really a fantastic bins, but the lens covers and, even more so, the rain guard (the caps which cover the eye cups) are absolutely and utterly *terrible*: they are made of cheapo plastic and they don't stick the the eye cups *at all*. In one word: useless.

Can you recommend some generic replacements for them which I could purchase separately?

Thanks,

Andrei
 
I've found Eagle Optics to be a good source of third party covers. Not cheap though. You could ask them for advice on best fit amongst their range.

Cheaper but requiring more guile/research is the Bushnell spare parts department. They provide spare parts for their bins including rainguards and objective covers for their bins that often fit other bins. Prices are quite good compared to the others. It helps to have both bins around to check the fit. If you have this works rather well. It also helps if you have the Bushnell prouct numbers for the bin - the phone call can feel like the Spanish Inquisition.

I've added a set of tethered covers from the Bushnell Elite to my Bushnell Discoverer which orifinally came with non-captive push-on (fall-off) covers. It's a tight fit but now I have objective covers that don't fall off. They also work well as a replacement set (with tighter fit) for the Promaster ED.
 
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I have a rainguard and tethered objective covers I got from Eagle Optics. The Rainguard that came with my Monarch was fine, but I managed to loose it. In addition to the EO brand tethered caps, they have the Bushwacker flip up objectice covers as well. Both work very well.
 
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