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fasteddie313
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Posted: September/23/2016 at 17:42 |
SARD - Square D Flushing New York U.S. NAVY BUSHIPS Mark XLIV Mod. 0 1944Just like these ones.. http://www.company7.com/library/sard_7x50_mk.html I saw them at a garage sale and couldn't leave them there.. I cleaned them up and they are in very good shape, with the strap and case all very nice.. They seem a bit milky inside though the lenses are not scratched.. I think this can be fixed.. It'd pretty nice that this place is related to swfa.. I have been a customer of theirs multiple times.. I'll get some pics us as soon as I can get them from one place to another.. I need to figure out what to do with these binoculars.. Fix them myself or put them in the hands of someone who will..
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Klamath where are you??
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Well, they sure look nice! They're worth getting them cleaned for maybe $60....
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fasteddie313
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That sounds quite reasonable..
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Klamath
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PM Bill Cook, he is WJC here. A retired US Navy Chief Opticalman who likely has serviced some of those binoculars.
As far as my recollection goes SARD made some top military stuff. Those 7x50 may be garden variety military standard binoculars, but I'll have to look into this further. Meanwhile fool around here: http://www.europa.com/~telscope/binotele.htm Google Simon Spiers flicker site on his binocular collection: https://www.flickr.com/photos/binoculars/?ytcheck=1, he likely has one of those. It looks like somebody has been into those at one time. That may be either a blessing or a curse depending on who it was. How is the image performance on those? Some specific information here: http://www.company7.com/library/sard_7x50_mk.html Edited by Klamath - September/23/2016 at 21:46 |
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fasteddie313
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Looking through them if I adjust the eyepieces I can get detail resolution pretty good, like count pine needles 100 yards away.. But the image looks milky, white fogish.. The right side is worse than the left.. Looking through them backwards it looks as if their is baby powder inside.. I have searched a lot of pictures of mold in binoculars and these don't look like that. These show no discernible pattern of internal contaminates, no shapes or patterns growing, just dusty like inside..
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Klamath
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OK, those have required cleaning issues. Send them to Suddarth Optical for an inspect, clean and repair as needed. Cory Suddarth is another retires US Navy Chief Opticalman who very likely has experience with those. Those may have internal fungus and some of that crap can permanently etch glass. Those may just have developed an internal coating of dust and grime over time.
So I see I sent you a duplicate Company 7 link...oops. That may be a place to send those for cleaning as well. I'd have never left those sitting at a garage sale either. As for a connection to SWFA, this thread may be what you get. By the way if you happen to see a big, fat SARD wide angle 6x42 sitting lonely on a table at a garage sale, don't leave without that one either. Here is a sale site link that has some SARD binoculars. Gives you some idea of value. Most of those 7x50 listed are of an earlier model SARD 7x50. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR4.TRC2.A0.H0.XSARD+binoculars.TRS0&_nkw=SARD+binocula Welcome to Optics Talk by the way Edited by Klamath - September/24/2016 at 11:10 |
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Steve
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fasteddie313
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Figured them out an cleaned them up.. |
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WJC
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Edited by WJC - September/26/2016 at 10:41 |
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Eddie,
Since you have gotten to the disassembly phase, I will direct you to Google Play Books. Once there search Field and Depot Maintenance Manual. There are a bunch, but the one I have is TM 9-1240-259-35. That thing is a treasure trove of information on service and maintenance of military optics. Best part is...it's free. Worst part it might encourage some to go too far. Just a FYI as I have no idea how inclined you may or may not be to dealing with this sort of thing. Good luck |
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