MBTcustom
07-11-2013, 04:30 PM
Hey fellers.
I didn't really know where to post this. It's an oddball request.
I have in mind to build a special rifle scope. It will have no internal adjustments of any kind and a steel tube body.
I was looking into buying the lenses from a supplier, but that is easier said than done. Custom coated lenses correct for a project like this are very expensive and hard to get, and it requires an understanding of optical theory that I do not possess.
It struck me that everything I need is sold at the local walmart in a convenient aluminum shipping tube LOL!
Unfortunately, I am not sure if this will work or not, so I would hate to drop $150 on a scope, just so that I could pirate the lenses (arrrg!).
Also, this project is not even worth doing unless I can get better than 12X magnification.
I got to thinking about it, and I wondered if somebody here, or somebody you might know, would have a scope that has bit the big burrito, but still has good lenses that you could sell me, instead of me ruining a perfectly good scope.
Figured it's worth an ask.
I didn't really know where to post this. It's an oddball request.
I have in mind to build a special rifle scope. It will have no internal adjustments of any kind and a steel tube body.
I was looking into buying the lenses from a supplier, but that is easier said than done. Custom coated lenses correct for a project like this are very expensive and hard to get, and it requires an understanding of optical theory that I do not possess.
It struck me that everything I need is sold at the local walmart in a convenient aluminum shipping tube LOL!
Unfortunately, I am not sure if this will work or not, so I would hate to drop $150 on a scope, just so that I could pirate the lenses (arrrg!).
Also, this project is not even worth doing unless I can get better than 12X magnification.
I got to thinking about it, and I wondered if somebody here, or somebody you might know, would have a scope that has bit the big burrito, but still has good lenses that you could sell me, instead of me ruining a perfectly good scope.
Figured it's worth an ask.