First Attempt At Scope Covers

[ade]

  On 2/2/2012 at 8:07 PM, 50 years leather said:

That wouldn't be my solution since electrical tape has a nasty habit of leaking adhesive if it happens to be exposed to heat, that is like "Sun Shine".

Just cut a piece of suede to fit the inside of the closed end.

ferg

Thanks for the advice Ferg,no "Sun Shine" today 28f cold.

I Promise at the weekend I'll open the gun safe,and dig out suede and contact adhesive.

If jobs worth doing,it's worth doing right.

Ade

[Northmount]

If your leather across the eyepiece is stiff, and the lenses are usually recessed (set back in the retaining ring), there should be little chance of the leather touching the lens.

But definitely keep leather off the lens coating. Most leathers likely have some chemicals left in them from tanning (else they would be tough dried out like rawhide), and you don't know how they will react with the lens coating.

Note a lot of lenses are being produced from plastic now. They can just stamp them out in high volume at low cost. Even plastic lenses for regular eyeglasses are stamped out instead of ground. The only grinding is to fit the frames. So now there is a combination of plastic plus lens coatings to improve the refractive index.