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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 3174434" data-attributes="member: 665">A Bridge Too FarWell, for a while you had the only "open hinge" SF in existence. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I remember when the EDG first came out, Pete Dunne gave one a 10 ft. javelin toss. They came down hard into the dirt. He dug them out an wiped them off, and other than a slightly crushed eyecup, they worked fine. Made me feel better about the double hinge design since there were people who doubted their robustness, not just the EDG, the EL, etc.You had Zeiss over the barrel with those photos. You could have blackmailed them. Either send me a new unit or I will post these photos to Birdforum, the largest online birding community in the world! They probably would have sent a new unit via FedEx to the nearest city and delivered the package to your door by dogsled a few days later. The repairs better not cost you an arm and a leg, because the bin already cost you an arm and a leg, two more missing limbs and you'd have nothing left to bird with! :smoke:Good Luck! BrockP.S. For winter birding, perhaps you should use a bin with a No Fault Warranty: <a href="http://alpenoptics.com/warranty.html" target="_blank">NO BLAME... NO FAULT... NO PROBLEM WARRANTY</a></blockquote>