It's stuck but good

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

NON destructive method -

Talk to her nicely .... caress her .....tell her what smooth lines she has ( the scope ) she's the most important thing in your life right now ..... they usually come around then .. ..

Flash

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

Talk to her nicely .... caress her .....tell her what smooth lines she has ( the scope ) she's the most important thing in your life right now ..... they usually come around then .. ..

Flash

And if this fails to get her to see reason, threaten to replace her with a Tak FS-102.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Octane

A flamethrower should do the trick.

H

On the scope or this thread??

Are pulling straight off or are you also rotating?

Beware of too much heat/cold, especially quickly. The expansion co-efficient of the glass is different to the cell.

Oh, and are you sure it's a push fit, not threaded?

[N1 (Mirko)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

We be playing silly buggers

Hoffentlich geht die Taukappe ab damit!!!

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

And if this fails to get her to see reason, threaten to replace her with a Tak FS-102.

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

On the scope or this thread??

Are pulling straight off or are you also rotating?

Beware of too much heat/cold, especially quickly. The expansion co-efficient of the glass is different to the cell.

Oh, and are you sure it's a push fit, not threaded?

Me never said it pushded on. Its well and truly screwed... Well, threaded I mean :p

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

And if this fails to get her to see reason, threaten to replace her with a Tak FS-102.

Too late! Well, not replaced, supplemented with another Tak (no, not the FSQ85). 2 fluorites now

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi Lewis,

Try propping the scope in such a way the you can feed some fine machine oil on to the threads without getting it on the objective.

Leave it for a day and try, you may need to repeat the process if it still wont move.

I had a similar situation with a spacer for my camera, this method worked a treat.

Cheers,

Justin.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Maybe you should leave the old dewshield in before the scope is fubar.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Me never said it pushded on. Its well and truly screwed... Well, threaded I mean :p

Right handed, not left? Stranger things have happened.

[LewisM]

No, just stuck hard because of getting tighter whenever the objective is screwed back on. It'll shift, eventually. Last time took some effort too.

[Octane (Humayun)]

That's what happens when you buy ultra premium dew shields.

H

[hotspur (Chris)]

Ahhhhhh -that's the scope I was coming down to Marcoola to look at and purchase next week!,might give it a miss thanks Lewis.

[LewisM]

Nothing wrong with it... Just replacing the dewshield because a prior owner put a hole in the dewshield side to install a nichrome dew heater, attaching the power at a DC port put in the shield. It bugged me always, so I found a genuine original and trying to put it back to original, no hole or dew heater

Took me 3 years to find this dewshield, and likely another 3 to get the old one off!!! Grrrrrr

[Kunama]

PM sent Lewis
....

(also have the objective cap in place to reduce any chance of distortion)

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Haureutta poron kanssa

Hey! I translated that-

Google said "Fornication with a reindeer"

I got an infraction for less...

[LewisM]

Phew!

Thanks to Matt's PM'd suggestion, it's off - indeed, I WAS inadvertantly clamping the threads down trying to turn it off, so they were biting in more. In fact, once I tried turning it off holding at the open end, well, it came off like butter - no boa strap required! D'OH!!!!

I had done this once before with an FS60... and Matt rescued me then too. I didn't learn me nothin' obviously

Oh, she looks beau-ti-ful! I'll upload picture soon The pimple on the side of her cheek is gone foreever

[Bassnut (Fred)]

to kompletnie popierdolony

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

some old timers might tell you that - before you try to remove a screw(or nut) - tighten it

geoff

[Kunama]

Lookin' forward to the pictures