These are highly sought after vintage Japanese made eyepieces by Meade.
Cosmetically, the 32mm and 15mm are in excellent condition. The 26mm is cosmetically in good condition, due to some very minor marks on the body.
Optically, from what I can tell, there are no issues with the 26mm.
The 32mm, when held towards a bright light and looking at the lenses at an angle, you can see obvious cement breakdown between the lenses. This is a very common problem with this vintage and type of eyepiece, that I have seen on many occasions, and particularly with the 32mm meade's I have seen. For this reason I'm selling this eyepiece for half of what it normally would sell.
The 15mm has clouded out lenses, with very obvious affects on the view through through a telescope. I'm not exactly sure what the issue is. But will require someone to disassemble and clean the lenses. So will be selling at reduced price.
The 32 and 26 come with plastic bolt twist cases as seen in the photo. The 15mm comes with half the original box, the bottom part of the box is missing.
32mm: $70 + postage
26mm: Sold
15mm: $15 + postage
Joe
Edit:
Recently I was able to test the 32mm under the stars and the cement issue didn't appear to have any noticeable affect on the views through the Telescope. The eyepiece produced sharp and pleasing views in the F5 Newt I tested it in.
Last edited by JoeBlow; 21-04-2025 at 02:47 PM.
Reason: Update on the 32mm
