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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3174854" data-attributes="member: 56622">The aluminum post came from me.  I said it looks like that and I'd better be sure to qualify that.  I can't see from the picture if that part is cast integrally to the frame.  If it is, it has to be the same material as the frame.  If it is not, then it MIGHT be Al.  I would hate to think Zeiss would stoop to that point and I feel pretty strongly that they would not.I have seen a fractured Mg alloy binocular housing (I wish I still had it, but it went to the scrap dealer along with some other junk porros ) and it looked different in coloration from aluminum.  But I can't put silver nitrate to a picture.  I said it looks like aluminum.  Of all people I should have known how that could have or would have been interpreted.  So I wanted to say looks like aluminum.  I think that is what I said.  I did not want to seem to be casting aspersions. However, after having said what I just said...that looks like a clear example of faulty casting...with whatever material, I stand by that comment.  If that seems to be an aspersion, so be it.  It looks faulty to me.  I should have left it at that, my mistake.HN, you are correct, let Zeiss take care of it.  If it's faulty they will  most likely bend over backwards to rectify the problem.</blockquote>