Scope repair

FrankCVA42

Active Member
Saw this on the Gunboards forums and thought I'd pass it along. The owner of L&K scope repair has suffered a heart attack and right now the scope repair business is on hold. The family is trying to contact the owners of scopes sent in for repair. I believe this was in the sniper forum and just within the last couple of weeks this was posted. Frank
 

Snakeoil

Well-Known Member
Always hate to hear this stuff. But it is part of the territory when you get gray hair. Hope he snaps back from this.

As a sidenote my reticle is holding up just fine and I did another one over the winter on a friends Junior Target Spot.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Never did a shooting scope but I made lots of Cross hairs in my eraly 20's for the local observatory! They needed special kinds. One was for polar alignments scopes these were hard because they were used to Adjust the North Star to the True pole of the earth from our position to align the Equatorial Scope mounts . These were sort of hit and miss because I did not have the super micrometer tools to figure the distance out. Once I got it close they would let me know a "steets" more or less! Made a few of those they used for years. And yes also true Cross hairs use to hold a star on the wires when making a long photographic exposure of celestial objects! I looked at it as it is not rocket science just good mechanical skills as a good reason to be really anal at what I do!

Visited the observatory again after 40 years and found out they are still using them! & with much success....Makes me feel good!
Now taking apart my Target scope and putting in new wires Heck No!
Either I'm too old or more smart!
 

FrankCVA42

Active Member
Had a co worker at my job. His dad and a couple uncles did optical repair work and he was always going into the valve pits looking for black widow spiders. The valve pits were semi underground and it was a sure bet that the spiders would make them their home. He'd take a quart mason jar into the pits and always manage to snag a few and take them home. Never a shortage of spiders. Frank
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Do newer scope actually use cross hairs? I'd think laser cutting or metal deposition would be easire and cheaper. I do know the cheap China scope I got one time had painted on as the reason I got it (freebie from distributor) was totally bad cross hairs. You could see the ragged edges.
N2 is used to purge moist air from optics, argon is a bigger molecule so it doesn't leak out so easily. Either should be under slight pressure to compensate for ambient barrometric pressure changes that can allow H2O contamination. H2O is hard on metallic AR coatings.
 

Ian

Notorious member
You get the slight pressure when screwing the ocular lens assembly past the O-ring. Assuming you captured the Argon inside in a bag. I suppose you could squeeze the bag while threading the ocular bell on to buld pressure. Only time I did this was with 75/25 mix and it worked pretty well.
 

MW65

Wetside, Oregon
Just picked up a k2.5, which is a little hazy ... Was looking at using vintage hi scopes out of Montana to clean, reseal, go thru it.

Anybody heard of them? Reviews??
 

FrankCVA42

Active Member
Saw this on the gunboards website. I had mentioned about the owner of L&K having a heart attack and that they were contacting the owners of scopes that had been sent in for repairs. Was told just recently that L&K is up and back in the scope repair business and that lead time was now about 3 months. But I would call and make sure they are still up and running. I had a rifle at a gunsmith's for repair and the smith passed away. Took almost 6 months to get it back from his estate. Good thing I had the original shop ticket as I had to prove that the rifle was mine before
it was released and returned to me. Taught me a valuable lesson. Always keep the sales receipts and supporting documentation. So now I have one of those fiber type bellows file folders crammed with all the receipts/sales slips. Some of the receipts go back over 30 years ago. Frank