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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sammyboy" data-source="post: 1500153" data-attributes="member: 40715">By an amazing stroke of luck I came across a new and still packaged Baby Boa in a charity shop, got it for £3.50!I plucked up the courage to have a go at cleaning my old Voigtlander bins.  Took them apart (got off a stiff objective lens with the Boa!) to give the prisms a good clean, though couldn't get the eyepiece end prisms out fully as couldn't get the shoulder plates off as couldn't work out how those individual focus eyepieces came out.  Noticed sadly one of the prisms is chipped but out of the FOV so doesn't affect the view.  I cleaned the prisms and lenses I could get to with some cleaning fluid (meant for 'high tech' appliances lol!) which worked a treat! The view is now much better, although there's still a bit of cloudiness and some dirt particles, probably in the eyepiece optics which I can't get to or the parts of those prisms I cannot fully remove.  However it's brought the Voigtlander's potential out, and the view is very sharp and not too dull for a pair of probably pre-WW2 binoculars! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />btw how do I remove the IF eyepieces? Do they screw off, or are there screws somewhere? If there are I can't find any, there's a couple of tiny holes in each eyepiece with the eyecups unscrewed but seem too small for screws, and can't see any screw in there anyway.@potts34137a - how good are those L & B bins? I see quite a few of them on Ebay and wonder about giving them a try but always thought they were cheap Japanese optics - am I wrong on that front?  If so I might invest in a pair!</blockquote>

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