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So I just received a Leica zoom in the mail and although I don't have an adapter yet was able to hold it flush on the diagonal and check it out. Much nicer than the sw eyepiece that came with the scope.
One thing though, I had read of a weakness in the twist up eyecup on these eyepieces. The three little retaining and locating tabs are reported to break in quite short time. So after opening the new eyepiece today I checked this out. Sure enough the twist up cup was very loose. After removing it from the eyepiece I could see the three tabs had lost any flexibilty they may have once had and were bent outwards and so were not locating the cup firmly as they should and only flex outwards to their current position when moved between clicklock positions. After giving one the slightest nudge back to its intended position about .75mm inwards it fell straight off.
What a piece of $h1...so was forced to repair and strengthen the whole assemble 10mins after opening it. That is pretty annoying on a thousand dollar eyepiece.
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