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Mirko, the "damage " involved is thousands upon thousands of tiny little fine short fibers plastered all over the optics and continuously raining down from the flocking material. What it does is not only dirty the optics & screw up contrast due to the significant amount of scattering these thousands of little fibres cause, but who knows what chemical damage these fibres will be doing to the reflective surfaces!!!! There's not just petrochemical but also the stuff from your hands left on the flocking material when it was installed.
The more I think about it, there is no way I would or could ever recommend any type of flocking of any scope. The risks are just too great, my scopes too precious, and no maker of these flocking materials will warranty their stuff against aging and degrading with time, and certainly NOT cover the cost of cleaning the optics or repairing any chemical damage their stuff causes.
Proprietary or not, I'm not going down the flocking route.
Alex.
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