I posted this to the
Tacpoint FAQ but I'm posting it here too. A little while ago I went to pull my tacpoint that I beat to shit torture testing and thought I had killed from the QRP mount. I decided since all the water was evaporated out of the tube finaly I'd toss in a battery and see if it would fire up, and I'll be damned it did. After I did the submersion test the thing died, the tube had filled completly with water and it would not work after that for months. I wrote it off as dead and the torture test complete. The lenses are filthy on the inside but you can still see through the optic and the dot is just as strong as ever. There is even mold on the inside of the tube from what it looks like! I don't know what to do. Should I start back up with some more torture testing? Or should I retire it to a .22lr like I planed to do if it made it through the testing? I just can't believe thast this thing is still working....
Here are the pics, not the way I was hoping they'd turn out but I'll have to paly with them in PS to lighten them up a bit or something. Damn I wish I had a macro lens for my D60. I had to use a PHD camera with a macro setting, they work for now.
execpt for the smuges on the lens all that crap you see is inside the tube. In the top right corner you can see some of the rust build up and just general grime.
I have to get a new one of this, it doesn't show how the dot actually looks, I couldn't get the damn camera to focus well enough, but that red blob in the middle is the dot. It actually looks just like it should in person though. I'll get a better pic tomarrow.
In this one you can actually see the red from where the dot is emitted from. All that stuff along the walls of the scope tube is just giome and what looks to be a little mold.
If you look a t the tube wall at the 3 o clock you can make out what appears to be a growth of some type, it's either mold or perhaps some build up from the chemicals that were in the pool water. I don't know. I'll see what I can do about clearing it up a bit tomarrow.