6x24x50 scope repair

budget scope repair for "won't hold zero"

[@naimi9584]

Haven't had a chance to test if it holds zero, but mounts just fine and has nice clear glass. Centered vertically true to a plumb line with the crosshairs which is always a plus!It's a great kzbin.infoUgkxc4K63Fd5LglDMObu7-Bgapxp_ef0W8hE scope. There's no parallax adjustment or focus ring, so may be limited to 3-7x, have to see how it is on the range. Also be aware that the rings are "look through" so you can still use irons, but they are really tall if you only intend to use the optics. On a 22LR no biggie since I'm not shooting competitions or worried about a hard cheek press. Will boresight and range test, if all goes well, I'll leave it at that!

[@robertqueberg4612]

The best place to grow one’s knowledge and confidence, is with a scope that is already in a compromised condition. As a man who has owned and used rifle scopes for over fifty years, but never opened one, I found this video to be very enjoyable. Now to order my own learning scope. Thank you for your good instructions.

[@nickyp8]

thanks a lot for your help i already opened it and i found TWO SPRINGS INSIDE BUT IN THE WRONG POSITION now all i need is to make new ones !!!YOU MADE MY DAY

[@johndadds1156]

Thank you for doing this video, I have this scope and love it. It stopped working around 800 shots. Now I can fix it and get back to shooting.

[@Bill-rs1zm]

Wow I give you a lot of credit for spending that time and effort to repair a $40.00 optic you definitely get my respect you seem like a pretty smart guy.

[@jfisher6367]

Brilliant was on verge of buying new scope, but found and followed this now as good as ever

[@janekkos5135]

One of the best practical movie on YT I have ever seen. OSCAR! You helped me with disassembly of my scope and hopefully at fix. However I super glued with couple drops the junction between original spring and tube. I think it will help. I think tube is "dancing" on that spring during vibrations. If not I will rework with spring leaf as You did. One remark: during reassembly last ring rotation allows correct focus back to origin.

[@mshaw290808mi]

Thank you for the video it was extremely helpful! My scope is an off brand, Tacfire. It had a different problem. The elevation and windage stud end tips had small metal ridges on the ends (they had not been chamfered) so they scored the cross hair tube and the tube started moving around on the rough surfaces.

[@jeffreyborja1091]

Awesome video, I actually used your video to clean up my cheap 4 x 32 center point .22 cal. Airgun

[@BigSlimmyD]

Well mine will be on my porch in the morning. Thanks for the video. It seems as though it may be easier to just return to sender, but you already found the problem and have a solution so I am going to fix it. Even though this scope is just for my .22 LR it will drive me nuts knowing there is an issue. Thanks again CTP

[@FloridaManFotoz]

What a great guy! So informative and precise. Thought out your video instead of “wing’in” it! Thanks bud!

[@johnherrera397]

Thank you so much I spent the better part of an hour trying to put that piece in and after watching your video first time I got it in I appreciate it

[@boogsc9715]

Bloody brilliant mate. Got given a scope as a gift and I’ve never had one in bits before so never seen where the spring should have been! Mine was squished into nothing so made a new one and we’re away. Although I used a knitting needle rather than a hacksaw blade 😂

[@JustinSmith432Chico]

Just finished this project. Thank you so much. I have not 0 yet. But just disassembled and clean the Lens helped with clarity so much. I’m amazed so far.

[@yurisemetsky190]

Hi bro have you tested yet ?

[@mancavecreations6535]

Thanks for the video iv just sorted the best scope I ever owned it's been on the shelf from 12 years iv tried many others some nearly 5x the price but never but never really been happy with them

[@beldendampf9928]

I can't wait to try this on an old Simmons Blazer 8-32 x 44 scope. It was great for benchrest for many years and finally started moving about.

[@mrpeter81]

Great video and awesome explained!! Chears from Sweden!

[@bradlehman1537]

Thank you! I really appreciate this info and I put it to use on one of mine!

[@FASKY2788]

Great job! Nice clear content.

[@dionisioarnalgarcia7744]

genial explicación, y muchas gracias por la sugerencia del fleje mas ancho... se acabo el salirse de su posición. 👌👍

[@freddanley408]

starter spring out of a 5 h.p briggs and stratton engine works good to make the spring under the reticle heat with a propane torch to bend the ends .

[@imanmahmodhaghighi3691]

Thank you! I really appreciate

[@rkambach]

Thanks that was helpful mines just arrived but it does not Zero at all the adjusters don't move the tube now I know where to look ...

[@randyanderson2124]

Had mine for 3 years now. Still shooting quarter size groups with my 270.

[@johnnybarbar7435]

The smaller internal tube is called the "erector tube".

[@MechInvent]

Very cool video, thank you.

[@cajer30076]

What springs did you use (curious about the dimensions and spring constants) also what caliber gun is that scope going on?

[@Reculse]

Great video.I had no idea how to extract the reticle from the inside so i can screw everything.But anyway the same scope lasted around 750 shots on magnum spring air rifle before everything start unscrewing itself.And i mean everything :D

[@crazytestpilot1380]

Seems like reticles don't like to be handled much..so easy to break ...I would avoid removing it if i could. much work can be done through the other end. Good luck.

[@semproniodensso3353]

Nice info...material for the new springs can be found in the windshield washers, it´s stainless steel 2-3 mm wide and 400 mms long...But now I'm thinking of using a little piece of laptop packaging foam as springs...

[@muhammadnasir8595]

Really brilliant video

[@dennisaalbers8851]

Thanks good info, really helpfull 👌🏼

[@spanpt]

Thanks! Great to see how a scope works, although I'm not brave enough to take one apart myself yet!

[@dennisaalbers8851]

Hopefully that day will never come, i need to do mine now🙈

[@jesseldomallig8736]

Thank u..for your vidio my scope fixed it...

[@frankrizzo5695]

The flat spring from a mauser rear sight would work perfectly.

[@jdog4534]

Cool. Great video. Mystery solved. But the worst rifles on scopes are those spring/piston air rifles, they will wreck even the best of scopes. I know, I've done it. They're notorious for it, as I found out after wrecking countless optics. Anyway, it's hard to tell from the video, but it looks like maybe the child safety device (clip) on a bic lighter might be a good spring to use.

[@jaakkooksa5374]

I wonder why the spring is not attached to the moving tube? You could just push the tube in place from the ocular side.

[@tharrisharrison7066]

Yes it was helpful thanks buddy

[@frankmoralesiii6908]

Well it is now 2021 and I have a Nikon BDC Scope. I had it mounted on a 50 Beowulf. It's been on that rifle for 3 years. The lens turned sideways inside the scope the other day when shooting at the range. I can not find a scope repair place where I live. Maybe I'll attempt what you did in this viedo

[@user-yy6yn3jq2d]

A lot of people have the same problem and solve it by themsalves but produsers pay no attention to this. I suppose to replace bronze spring the same size but more strong steel. I hope to find it sopmewhere.

[@Robert-kp8rt]

Bonjour avez vous déjà fait une réparation sur le réticule d'une lunette .

[@ChildofYHVH]

I have the same scope and it won’t hold 0 for nothing. I might attempt this fix. Great video btw.

[@alligator2647]

Thank you so much, you made my year!

[@cajjesra269]

Can this manufacturers not weld the spring in place smh..i have this exact issue

[@MrWhiltetail]

It would have been very nice if you showed shots of the inside of the scope.

[@kevinhullinger8743]

Well done 🇺🇸

[@AltonRowell-gb1lb]

Thanks man.

[@usingtheirhypocracyagainst8636]

Be sure to use a Buger to clean the lenses 😆😆

[@wongnusabangsa6462]

Please make aclean video delft 3x25 scope sn858. I m from indonesia

[@nickyp8]

great video !!i have the same problem.spring flew out of position...will i be able to fit it again?still trying to find a tool to unscrew the objective lens

[@crazytestpilot1380]

If you want to buy the tool, it's called a "lock ring plier".

[@nickyp8]

it was impossible to fit the springs back in their place with the original ones i broke the cross hairs cause i wanst patient enough damn

[@crazytestpilot1380]

Yeah, I did the exact same thing. You can remake the cross hairs with human hair and a couple drops of super glue.

[@crazytestpilot1380]

I've read your notifications but can't figure out how to reply to them. I would be happy to help you in any way I can. Is there a way to share e-mail address without having to display it here?

[@nickyp8]

i threw it to the garbage i got angry as i was going so well with the procedure hahahahaha!!im buying a new one !thanks for everything though

[@lostone260]

Cost efficient

[@keving52002]

Nice ,some of these scopes are filled with nitrogen, how your your refill that. i Open one and heard a slight fizz , like opening a soda.

[@derekthomasgriffin]

keving52002 seriously?

[@jonhunter8725]

Update requested

[@felixv2432]

its a very nice and helpful video but there use to be some gas inside every scope so how am l going to fill those gas back on?

[@derekthomasgriffin]

Felix V please explain gas in rifle scope

[@felixv2432]

I believe you know there is a nitrogen gas inside a scope, that's what am trying to say

[@foghornleghorn1786]

If you think there is any gas left in these cheap scopes from the factory it's wishful thinking. It has already leaked out by now or was never put in to begin with. But unless your going in and out in subzero weather it doesn't matter. The lenses in these scopes are pretty good but the mechanisms suck. This was a good repair video. The guy who suggested the screw and coil spring is also a good solution. Also, a little Goop on that flat spring and it will never mover again.

[@MrCstone1]

Do you have an email? What would you charge a guy for this repair?

[@mickeymcafee7615]

Don't these scopes come with nitrogen in them? Is that important or is there a way to replace it?

[@diychad7268]

That's just to alleviate the possibility of any moisture inside the tube, in colder temps if there is any moisture it will condense and sit on the lenses as water drops, as long as you reassemble it inside or somewhere where the air has been dehumidified or conditioned then most likely you won't have any kinda issue with condensation, also these cheap scopes most likely do not actually have the air evacuated and the nitrogen pumped in, it's not a cheap setup to do all that so only your more expensive scope brands actually go thru the effort to do all that

[@felixv2432]

Very ingenious, but my concern is what would happen to the crosshair? Secondly, how'd you fill back the gas inside?

[@derekthomasgriffin]

Felix V Gas?

[@jacy3920]

I think he was saying that the cross hair lens was in the small tube inside so it wouldn't change the how they are adjusted. I am very curious about the gas. I read elsewhere to do it in some sort of enclosure that is filled with nitrogen. Now, where to get nitrogen, but I think it can be simply made.

[@felixv2432]

@@derekthomasgriffin there is another old scope which l have use long time ago and some droplets of water gets inside, l try opening the objective lens but the threaded lock seems lock, l thought there might be some screw which l didn't see any, l can't turn it completely to unscrew the lock, please help. By the way its a Bushnell Sportsmen 6-12×40 . I try online for this particular scope repair, l can't find one

[@foghornleghorn1786]

@@felixv2432 The lock rings were sometimes glued with sealent so that they wouldn't move. Make yourself a tool from very hard steel to fit the notches of the lock ring and try turning it. Use vise grips on the tool for more torque. If that doesn't work try a very small amount of acetone on the lock ring to dissolve any sealant. You could also try warming the scope body up bit with a hair dryer to expand the metal.

[@gitosubroto5537]

kaca telescope biar bening dan jelas gak blawur di apain ya lor

[@3brothersproduction836]

Its grate

[@LastCast2011]

Hi, I did this to 2 of these scopes that I purchased through amazon. I used your idea, and made the springs. I made mine just a little wider, as the first one I cut to look like the size of yours in this video. Anyhow, it does not work. Took some time to do this and esp. to 2 scopes, they don't hold zero, I used them on a break barrel gas piston air gun. Not worth the time and effort. Not trying to be negative, it's a good idea, but doesn't work! I wasted a lot of time doing this.

[@jacy3920]

I believe you did it wrong or it was a different scope

[@GlocknLoad1]

Any moisture issues on the lenses since you degassed it?

[@crazytestpilot1380]

No gas in these cheap scopes.

[@GlocknLoad1]

haha rgr. Appreciate the video. Read in forums a long while back they put shims in between the scope and ring to make you adjust sight to favor the spring side so everything stayed tighter. Thanks for sharing.

[@lalonexus30]

👉💯👍

[@AltonRowell-gb1lb]

U can fill the tube with nitroglycerin, then smack it with a hammer.

[@crazytestpilot1380]

Yeah, sometimes the is the better option.

[@cchgn]

What about the gas inside? Now it'll fog up all the time.

[@crazytestpilot1380]

These cheap scopes don't have gas. If you have a scope with gas it's probably a good scope and doesn't need this type of work anyway.

[@richardried4197]

You know that an air rifle and rimfire cartridge calibers will ruin a large bore rifle scope?

[@yourmomma2995]

a SPRING air rifle will but a rimfire will not.

[@richardried4197]

@@yourmomma2995 not all, but some

[@yourmomma2995]

@@richardried4197 which rimfire will?

[@richardried4197]

@@yourmomma2995 You misunderstand I'm referring to scopes.

[@yourmomma2995]

@@richardried4197 i know, i am referring to scopes also, you said a rimfire will ruin a scope. which rimfire are you referring to that will ruin a scope?

[@papaweaver1401]

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[@bobking4031]

How to feck a scope it has now lost its gas

[@diychad7268]

Cheap scopes never had nitrogen or whatever gas put into it in the first place, the process of doing so isn't cheap and these cheaper companies def ain't spending that money to be able to gas up a 30 dollar scope

[@clayaustin9339]

What I like the most is how you took it to the range with a LARGE caliber rifle afterward, and demonstrated how it held zero!!!! NOT.

[@diychad7268]

If your putting this cheap of a scope on a large caliber rifle in the first place and expecting it to work great for ya, your just sitting yourself up for failure anyways

[@magaman6353]

If it costs $35 to $55, that means it costs $2 to $3 to make! Throw the damn thing away, it's a piece of garbage.

[@nickbownz]

@George Ohm fucking rekt GG ez

[@dannylray1830]

its amazing how everyone now like cheap china made Garbage scopes . you spend $500-$1000 for a rifle & put a Cheap $35 China made garbage scope on it .

[@richardried4197]

If you just like tinkering with stuff that's fine that's one thing but don't go putting out a video under the guise of it being informational when it's 0 fact based

[@diychad7268]

The concept of what he is doing isn't hard to understand nor is it hard to understand why it should work, unless you do it yourself you'll never know tho now will ya

[@MrCstone1]

I'd mail mine to you to have you fix it. What would you charge? What's your email?