old binos out of colimation (1 Viewer)

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captaincarot

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• Nov 27, 2009

• #1

hi chaps

i have a pretty old pair of
tecnar binoculars,

8x40 coated optics number 822717.

i have had them sinvce they were new but looking through them the other day i realised they were out of colimation.

is there anywhere close to manchester England who service/ recolimate binoculars and if so

what sort of price would they charge for doing so?

as i would rather get them fixed than retire them to the bin. they were my first pair of binos

 

Last edited: Nov 27, 2009

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Malcolm Stewart

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• Nov 30, 2009

• #2

You could try the telescope shop in Stockport near the football ground.

http://www.sbtc.co.uk/

There's other repair centres and Google should find them.

 

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Martin Fagg

Guest

• Nov 30, 2009

• #3

I have not used them for repairs myself but I believe Opticron do a postal repair service for other makes of optics as well as their own.
I've read that they are very reasonable price wise too.

 

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captaincarot

Well-known member

• Dec 2, 2009

• #4

Malcolm Stewart said:

You could try the telescope shop in Stockport near the football ground.

http://www.sbtc.co.uk/

There's other repair centres and Google should find them.

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i have a pretty good idea where this shop is, it's where i bought my new binos form haha didn't know they did repairs.

thanks

 

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captaincarot

Well-known member

• Dec 2, 2009

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Martin Fagg said:

I have not used them for repairs myself but I believe Opticron do a postal repair service for other makes of optics as well as their own.
I've read that they are very reasonable price wise too.

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cheers for that i will enquire

 

Simon S

Well-known member

• Dec 9, 2009

• #6

If they are Tecnar's I would respectfully suggest buying a new binocular, or even a second hand Swift model on ebay. The Tecnar's are average at best and re collimation would cost around £50. A second hand Swift Grand prix will cost around £30 and by a better performer. You could do a conditional alignment on them yourself?