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A scope from 80mm binos
I have an 80mm 400mm scope and a pair of triplet binos. I tried to get the lens out of the binos but the holding ring appears to be glued in.. maybe not? but the ring wont turn so before I try real hard to get them out can I run this idea past you. The idea is to get the objective out of the binos place it in the scope, so as to use the tube and focuser of the old 80 x 400 and hopefully get better widefields than the current lens which seems to have rather poor colour. I enjoy the ease of use of an 80mm for fotos and had set my sights on a Williams Optics scope but if this works it would be an inexpensive way to get a tripplet scope. Even if the ring is glued I would be prepared to cut the bino tube, easy to do from inspection.. the remaining binos tube probably wont take the old lens but one bino tube would make a good spotting scope. The fact that the binos were $200 has me wondering if the lens would do what I hope it may do.
Possible or stupid..
alex
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