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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Prower" data-source="post: 3327553" data-attributes="member: 115634">KeebsA friend and I have encountered similar problems with Opticron, I trust at low level.In 2010 I bought an Opticron 8x32 SR.GA that had a loose diopter ring that moved off its setting at the drop of a hat. (I recently fixed the problem with a rubber band cut from an old bicycle inner tube of a suitable diameter.)In 2011 I recommended and bought on behalf of the friend an Opticron 8x32 Discovery WP. She had the habit of holding the binocular by one barrel, and found that the other barrel would then droop down slowly to the stop. The focus mechanism also became sloppy. It acquired 2mm of free travel at the circumference of the wheel. I was so embarrassed I bought the Discovery back off her, and it now languishes unused in one of my cupboards.In each case we were told: 'No fault'.I say in fairness that neither of us chose to take the problems up at the top.Stephen</blockquote>