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Old 30-01-2015, 02:43 AM
Mokusatsu (Australia)
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Collimating binoculars... where are the screws?

I own a pair of old Zenith Tempest 10x50 binoculars (Japanese, probably 1970s vintage with porro prisms). They were my grandfather's.

On the weekend I dropped them and now they are knocked out of collimation (doubled stars).

They do not appear to have any collimation screws. In fact, after finding articles on servicing old binoculars I now know how to completely take them apart and clean them, but I haven't found any good information on how to collimate this type of binoculars.

Once I have figured out how to collimate them, I'm likely to use the sun projection method to guide the actual collimation process.

https://sites.google.com/site/rchamo...-of-binoculars

Does anyone have any advice?

I can pull them apart and take photos if anyone needs to see the prism setup or something in order to advise me.
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