Thread: Identifying and unknown spotting scope

Took it around to a jeweller today and they couldn't help.
They did say they would be able to polish it out but worried they would ruin the lens' focus (fair concern) and suggested Specsavers. They also wouldn't touch it, guessing because they don't do any manufacturing in house. So looks like I'm stuck with it as it is unless I want to dig deeper and pay more than the scope is worth for some custom work.

Called around too and unsurprisingly no one stocks the screw thread eyepieces.

Will keep an eye out on trade me to see if something comes up but otherwise I'll just use it as it is.

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Maybe look internation too.
Ebay at a minimum.
There is a mob in the US that refurbish and sell vintage scopes.
Ma6be check them out?

@pickled_puck have sent you a PM

Shoutout to @zimmer for helping sort this out and put me in touch with Mike Collings. He somehow managed to find someone who happened to have an old 28mm threaded 25x eyepiece lying around that fits perfectly onto the Kowa.

See pics for old vs new, I'm very happy.

(The two vertical blurs in the pictures are because I'm looking through the back fence, nothing to do with the lens quality)

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Brilliant.