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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rathaus" data-source="post: 3303912" data-attributes="member: 132018">Cheers Joachim, yeah I certainly won't be tossing them about.As an aside, I have one of the earliest 8x32 Leitz trinovids (it's barely any bigger than the Amplivid). It's view was a bit milky and I was looking at my options as they're perfect otherwise. There was some haze on the prisms. A respected fellow member told me they are built so well that they're actually easy to clean. He took me through the basics. Taking this thing apart was unbelievably simple. I couldn't believe the level of sophisticated simplicity and precision of construction. The member assured me that these old trinovid were built so well that collimation would remain perfect upon reassembly and he was right. Basically, I didn't ruin the things!...but beads of cold sweat covered my face.Anyway, This was one of my less disastrous moments of optical fiddling. Like a good gambler, let's keep the disasters quiet and rejoice in the few successes :-ORathaus</blockquote>