Bensbins
BINOLUX-7X21 PORRO
this Japanese made old Binolux porro compact, i'm guessing 1960s, came to me in not great condition. It was dirty inside, one eye cup missing, the plastic covers on the hinge front that fit under the tripod adapter cover missing, paint shabby, and out of alignment. I found some fairly shallow rubber eye cups that fit perfect, cleaned it inside, aligned it, made some replacement plastic covers from a piece of black plastic, gave the objective caps a spray, and then gave the caps and front prism plates a coat of clear laquer. The only thing missing is the swivell neck strap attachments that would have gone each side, I think probably similar to the ones on early swift models.
I'm quite pleased, they have come up a treat. It is fully coated, no marks to the glass, and gives a decent bright clear image. The quoted 525ft@1000yds FOV is bit ambitious, nowhere near by my eye, but maybe the eye cups make a difference, the one original that I have is a very shallow hard cup, not much more than about 2mm. Not worth anything much, not exceptional, but a neat little thing and satisfying to get it back to a good condition.
Interesting thing I forgot to mention, inside the body, it has JB4 which is made by TOEI KOGAKU Ltd at Hatogaya-shi works, but on the inside of the ocular arm it has JB 138 = made by TOYO JITSUGO Co Ltd so seems a bitsa, unusual or possibly common back then ?
BINOLUX-7X21 PORRO
this Japanese made old Binolux porro compact, i'm guessing 1960s, came to me in not great condition. It was dirty inside, one eye cup missing, the plastic covers on the hinge front that fit under the tripod adapter cover missing, paint shabby, and out of alignment. I found some fairly shallow rubber eye cups that fit perfect, cleaned it inside, aligned it, made some replacement plastic covers from a piece of black plastic, gave the objective caps a spray, and then gave the caps and front prism plates a coat of clear laquer. The only thing missing is the swivell neck strap attachments that would have gone each side, I think probably similar to the ones on early swift models.
I'm quite pleased, they have come up a treat. It is fully coated, no marks to the glass, and gives a decent bright clear image. The quoted 525ft@1000yds FOV is bit ambitious, nowhere near by my eye, but maybe the eye cups make a difference, the one original that I have is a very shallow hard cup, not much more than about 2mm. Not worth anything much, not exceptional, but a neat little thing and satisfying to get it back to a good condition.
Interesting thing I forgot to mention, inside the body, it has JB4 which is made by TOEI KOGAKU Ltd at Hatogaya-shi works, but on the inside of the ocular arm it has JB 138 = made by TOYO JITSUGO Co Ltd so seems a bitsa, unusual or possibly common back then ?