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Posted: 2/22/2020 6:42:46 AM EDT

It's about as big as a French horn, about as heavy as a bowling ball, says "AEG Telefunken 8X Sight Ref by Tait" on the label. I turned it on, it has power, the reticle focus works, but when I ran it through every possible near/far and focus combination it still failed to really change a whole lot, giving me only a very blurry and not very bright image of the corner of my (switched off) television at about 30' with a little bit of light in the room from behind the scope.

I'm thinking it's probably meant to do more and is probably giving me suboptimal results. It could be something as simple as knobs not being connected, or maybe the innards are toast, I don't know. Does anyone have trouble shooting steps, or the website of a reputable or at least semi-reputable company that fixes these things? So far I'm into this thing for $0, I'm probably not willing to go too much more than $200 to get it up.

It looks like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/202642273066

This isn't my ebay ad, I'm not schilling.

Posted: 2/22/2020 9:45:14 AM EDT

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If you’ve got a crooked wonky table you can probably use it to stabilize it or use it as a door stop.

Posted: 2/22/2020 10:56:22 AM EDT

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Sell it/give it to a tinkerer.

Posted: 2/22/2020 11:44:30 AM EDT

[#3]

We have one too. It looks great in the rumpus room.

Posted: 2/22/2020 12:06:13 PM EDT

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There was a guy here that posted a thread wanting gen 1 and how all of us were snobs.

Give it to that dude??

Posted: 2/22/2020 4:37:53 PM EDT

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It looks like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/202642273066

This isn't my ebay ad, I'm not schilling.

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That would make a great conversation piece.

Posted: 2/22/2020 8:10:13 PM EDT

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That's a beautiful rig. There were very good NV tubes in Europe quite some time back, and they wouldn't have wasted the glass on a poor one.
Regardless the type of tube, with that objective assembly, it should see well. The thing gathers so much light with that lens, it would be night vision with no added electronics at all.
Would love to have one like it.

Hope you get it fixed and running.

Posted: 2/22/2020 8:37:28 PM EDT

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Can you take a pic of the lens? Is this the version with the catadioptric lens?

Posted: 2/23/2020 1:17:14 AM EDT

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That is so damn awesome... I wonder if that's a prism or a periscope at the back?

Posted: 2/23/2020 2:02:03 AM EDT

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Right...Like to know that as well.

Posted: 2/23/2020 2:14:51 AM EDT

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Can you take a pic of the lens? Is this the version with the catadioptric lens?

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I'm not good at doing the image hosting sites, but if you pm me your email or phone number I can text or email a photo to you.

Posted: 2/23/2020 2:16:01 AM EDT

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Right...Like to know that as well.

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I see you're TNVC. Maybe we could work out some kind of a deal on a swap...just kidding, I know what your stuff is worth.

Posted: 2/23/2020 12:34:12 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/23/2020 2:17:53 PM EDT

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That’s really cool!

Posted: 2/23/2020 2:58:59 PM EDT

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Yep, that's what it looks like.

Posted: 2/23/2020 9:13:16 PM EDT

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Right...Like to know that as well.

I see you're TNVC. Maybe we could work out some kind of a deal on a swap...just kidding, I know what your stuff is worth.

The glass in that scope in amazing. I may want to add that to my collection at some point.

@Harlikwin

Posted: 2/23/2020 10:30:17 PM EDT

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Thanks for the mention, but alas it looks like it sold. Would have liked to add it to my old collection though.

Posted: 2/23/2020 10:56:10 PM EDT

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The glass in that scope in amazing. I may want to add that to my collection at some point.

@Harlikwin

Thanks for the mention, but alas it looks like it sold. Would have liked to add it to my old collection though.

How big is that Cat lens? I mean shit, a Gen 2 in that system may have it look like a Gen 4!

Posted: 2/24/2020 1:06:07 AM EDT

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So it sounds like it could be pretty good for an old optic, but like I said it won't focus, at least as far as I can tell. Is it possible the reason it wouldn't focus is because I was too close to what I was trying to see? Is there a minimum distance I should be trying at?

Can anyone think of a place that does work on this kind of thing?

Posted: 2/24/2020 1:35:32 AM EDT

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Any scope should focus on infinity. Look at the furthest thing you can and work in to find the near focus range.
Before you fool with any other controls, twist the eyepiece focus ring until whatever you see on the eye screen is as clear as possible.

Posted: 2/24/2020 2:53:14 AM EDT

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Can anyone think of a place that does work on this kind of thing?

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Look up NAIT INC. They could probably help you out with it.

Posted: 2/24/2020 3:28:14 AM EDT

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Look up NAIT INC. They could probably help you out with it.

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Thanks, I should've thought of that with their name being written on the side of the thing! I dropped them a line just now, maybe there's even some kind of warranty. Nah, that's probably just wishful thinking.

Posted: 2/24/2020 8:25:30 AM EDT

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It looks like one of those observation scopes you drop a quarter in and view a landmark from a mile away. I couldnt imagine having to shoot with that thing.

Really cool display piece though, especially with that huge cat lens.

Posted: 2/24/2020 8:56:55 AM EDT

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I think that's a somewhat rare 2 stage cascaded 1st gen tube system which uses the same tube as a Fero 52 binocular system thus the need for the dog legged eyepiece to invert the produced image to right side up

Posted: 2/25/2020 8:57:00 PM EDT

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So it sounds like it could be pretty good for an old optic, but like I said it won't focus, at least as far as I can tell. Is it possible the reason it wouldn't focus is because I was too close to what I was trying to see? Is there a minimum distance I should be trying at?

Can anyone think of a place that does work on this kind of thing?

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30 ft is 10m, which would likely be point blank for this. I Would point it at something at least 300 yds away and try it again.

Posted: 2/26/2020 4:57:57 AM EDT

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30 ft is 10m, which would likely be point blank for this. I Would point it at something at least 300 yds away and try it again.

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Oh, I didn't know that. I figured it would be good up close as well as far away. I'll give that a try tomorrow night, thanks. I tried it again last night and went maybe 50', same result. I didn't think it'd have a minimum distance.

Posted: 2/27/2020 2:30:21 PM EDT

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Neat OP. I'd keep it as a decoration. I am pretty sure this is the same one or variant of the one I have...

Posted: 2/27/2020 3:30:22 PM EDT

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How big is that Cat lens? I mean shit, a Gen 2 in that system may have it look like a Gen 4!

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You are going to start making people think gen 4 exists with that comment

Posted: 2/27/2020 7:38:24 PM EDT

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Neat OP. I'd keep it as a decoration. I am pretty sure this is the same one or variant of the one I have...

https://brill.com/view/journals/vulc/5/1/22134603_005_01_s005_i0001.jpg

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LOL no... That's a PVS-2, and pretty much every euro NV scope made was better than the PVS-2... Of course the reason for that was the US was on the PVS-4 at that point. At any rate...

Posted: 2/27/2020 11:55:57 PM EDT

[#29]

Id set it up on a tripod and let the kiddos play with it

Posted: 3/7/2020 7:43:13 PM EDT

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Sorry for @ing the three people in this thread who said they'd be interested in owning one of these things, I just read the forum rules and saw that linking to the EE isn't allowed. Sorry for being such a n00b.

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