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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker9937" data-source="post: 3831875" data-attributes="member: 148845">Thank you to you all.  Your info has been interesting and helpful.  I contacted Zeiss, and the person I spoke to was very polite.  I followed up with an email as he requested, but have not heard anything in return.  No worries.  I did not expect them to be interested in working on an old set of binos.  Not to milk the forum for all of their knowledge at one time, but I found another set that I picked up.  I wonder if anyone knows when these were made and if they are worth restoring?  Someone did a horrible job of re-painting them.  Much of the info on them has been blotted out.  I have attached pics for as much info as possible.  I can't quite make out the model name, but I think it says "Deltarem".  The ser. # as I can see it says "1526564" (not sure that the last number is a "4", but the preceding numbers are fairly clear).  Nearly as heavy as an anvil, but the views look pretty good.  I don't want to say what I paid, because it is probably way too much.  But, is something like this worth sending to a pro like Cory Suddarth, and putting a couple of hundred into it?  Even with being afraid that I spent more than I should have, it was still less than a one or two nice steak dinners.  If not, it is still enjoyable as is.  I can take the plates off, as well as other affected parts, and make it look much more attractive than it does currently.Here are the pics.</blockquote>

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