On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:41:25 -0400, "Adam Smith"
wrote:

http://www.surplusshed.com/ consistently have used reticles at good prices.
I haven't bought reticles, but I've bought other optical goods, they were
very painless pleasant transactions. Next day shipping, perfect packing,
prompt communications yada. I bought a reasonable condition coated 50 mm
objective (in cell) in the last purchase, and I think it was $7 or some such
figure.

I recall that "Procedures in Experimental Physics" (the John Stong book that
somebody mentioned earlier in the day: Lindsay) has a section on using
spider silk to make a reticle. I believe that most folks now stretch single
polypropylene fibers.

(ping James Lerch, Bob May, other of the lurking ATMs?) anybody done this?

I once redid a reticle using spider silk. It was actually quite easy
to do, using black widow silk..of which we have a rather large surplus
of here in the desert..

I used a tiny drop of airplane model superglue to hold each end of
both strands across the reticle ring, but it was a stone bitch getting
them perfectly oriented at 12/3/6/9 oclock and had to redo it about 10
times..and never did get it perfect, but shot the scope for about 10
yrs on a 243

Not having any inert gas (at the time)..it did fog on me once under
sever conditions. Normally they are nitrogen filled..I wonder if
Argon would work?

Gunner


Adam Smith,
Midland ON

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
On the subject of rifle scopes, I have a cheap K-Mart scope that someone
gave me. It was used on a shotgun (not by me, honest), which shattered
the reticle. Two questions: a. how does it come apart? and b. is it
possible to make a replacement reticle with simple cross hairs easily? If
anyone has some thoughts, I'll dig it out and supply more details.
Thanks.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)




"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner