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Author:  septic [ Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:18 am ]
Post subject:  Spat Bino conversion
A few months back, I was lucky enough to pick up one of Spat's Apone binocular kits, and was very keen to mod mine in the same way retrogarde had [as detailed in this excellent thread ]

I didn't think to take any pre-mod pics, but the kit starts life like this, a hollow but thick-walled resin model of three pieces
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Not long after getting it, I started hunting for some cheap opera glasses, or similar, to be my donor lenses. Failing to find anything not vintage [which I'd not want to destroy], or just too much $$. Then I had an epiphany around a pair of little mono scopes from AliExpress, that I'd bought a year or so back for some other project (they didn't work out for that job, but proved to be prefect for the bino lenses.
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Author:  septic [ Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:18 am ]
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I drilled /sanded out the resin rear lenses completely, and then tried a few different ideas for a plate to sit on the inside face of the resin lens housing, to which the replacement lenses from the mono scopes were glued.
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Also mounted an old vinyl strap I had laying around, after carefully drilling thin slots through the bino body (same way retrogarde did).
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And finally, I drilled out the front lenses [a little nerve-racking!], and hand sanded till I could friction-fit the mono scope front lenses in.
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Author:  septic [ Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:30 am ]
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Finished prop (NB: this actually is a much browner colour, it's quite interesting how it looks OD under natural lighting).

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Tempted to pop the front lenses out, and paint black around the edge, as the white edge is quite visible ... dunno, they're stuck in pretty tight.
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