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That was the Orion.
I wouldn't want to butcher any LVWs this way. They are very nice EPs as they are. I have tried a few of them and used to own the 22mm, which is probably the best of the lot. I'm certain they are very well thought out and optimally designed by some of the best Japanese optics engineers Vixen money could buy. Anything one could do to mod them (beyond simply barlowing them in the regular fashion) is likely to only stuff them up.
The Orion Stratus and other similar clones are just approximate copies of the LVWs. They use cheaper glass for example (no Lanthanum glass in Stratus and the like). I'm pretty sure I recall seeing lens arrangement drawings of both LVWs and clones, and while they are similar, they are not identical. That makes sense because the clones would have to account for the use of different glasses and at least change the lens shapes to match up the focal lengths of individual elements.
So the clones are fair game for tinkering but the LVWs are a case of don't fix what ain't broke.
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