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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 3021947" data-attributes="member: 665">BINGO! Focusing tension differences. Thank you for FINALLY confirming what I wrote 700 posts ago! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Jap or Chin, the Cascades also had QC issues with the focusers. Not sure if that's the reason you bought five of them or if there were also other issues with them? :h?:Then again, Swarovski focusers are not consistent, and you have to pay top dollar for one of those. Designing a smooth focuser and making them consistently smooth is an art that few manufacturers have mastered besides Nikon (and even with Nikon, if you limbo low enough down the food chain to the cheapest Monarchs, you will find inconsistency in focus tension). :eat:Anyway, the point was that Blue Spiderman had issues with the focusers on both samples, and he rejected the first and is learning to live with the second one. I hate playing roulette so I will wait until somebody buys a BS II with a smooth focuser and then buy it off him when he gets tired of it. Then I will finally be a member of the Sightron BS II Fan Club of which you are president. :smoke:Brock</blockquote>