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I've seen these around, and even bought one--it's misaligned but beautiful so it sits on my mantel.

It's a simple 160mm setup, and it came with Zeiss objectives and eyepieces on it which worked nicely (Aside from the misalignment).

Why, it's a series T Dynoptic. I know a little about that scope.

I thought it was probably a dyn-something, but it is hard to tell.
Darn shame mine is misaligned. I'm not sure how I'd go about opening it up, and maybe someday I will but for now I'm happy with it as a display piece.

I have done it before. It was pretty straightforward, and the binocular optics all came out through the top. I don't remember how the alignment was performed, but I have just aligned a badly misaligned Dynazoom from about 15 years after this one and it was simplicity itself. There were three spring-loaded star-drive screws for each eye, and you could adjust them bit by bit until the two images matched. It took about 20 minutes.

Scarodactyl wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:27 pm

I'm happy with it as a display piece.

I have also heard it described as a "pigeon-breasted" Dynoptic, which I think is perfect.

I just got one of these given to me! It's missing objectives and the mirror but I'm looking forward to trying to put into service. Beautiful instrument.

My advice would be that if you ever see a 20x Apochromat for it snap it up and then get some compens eyepieces it's the sharpest I've ever seen.

When you say misaligned are you referring to the binocular collimation? If so this article may be helpful.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/126976427/A- ... ollimation


Best Regards,
KIrby

I have several of these in my collection.
One of them has gotten condensation in that splitter chamber.
When this happens, it becomes the perfect environment for mold.
That one has green between the elements of the bottom prism.
The 16033 stand introduced in the 1950s are the best IMHO.
Radazz

Now that you mention it, one was out of alignment (cross-eyed).
I opened the top, and it was obvious how the one prism had moved in the mount.
Easy fix. Changing the bottom prism is a bear, though.
Radazz