At the match today, another friend gave a Lyman 422 Expert scope for me to play with. He got it at a garage sale. Could not see anything thru it, including the crosshairs. Looking in from the objective end, you could see crosshairs and they looked kinda rough.
Never worked on one of these so went into it with caution. Got the main lens cell out and then the reticle. Someone had been in the scope before and used 0.006 copper wire to make a new reticles. Used about 5 lbs of solder to put them in place.
Here's the reticle as it came out of the scope.
Made a nice new reticle with 0.0006 nylon and installed it back into the scope. But it was really a waste of time because you could not see it. I pulled the lense cell out of my 438 Lyman as they are pretty much the same scope and when I inserted it into the body of the 422 the reticle was crisp and the scope was clear. I compared the two lens cells and they were different. Mine had lenses on each end. The 422 had an aperture. Plus the ring nut that held it in could not be screwed flush to the end of the tube. This prevented the lens cell from going all the way home into the main body of the scope. I removed the nut and the aperture and looked inside the cell with a flashlight. The lens about 3 inches away had a big spot on it. I got a bigger flashlight and it turned out to be a big chip in the lens. So, it was obvious someone had been inside the lens cell. I removed the spacer tube and that lens dropped out. I then tapped out the next spacer tube and the next lens came out in pieces. It was clear when it was in the tube, but the surface fell off when it came out. My guess is somebody tried to tighten that nut to be flush and put majore stress on the lenses and fractured them. When I removed the pressure, they simply fell apart. Plus, the lenses were not in the proper orientation. I think one was missing based upon how mine was set up.
Too bad. Would have been a decent little scope. But somebody turned it into a parts mule. Well, it's got a dandy new reticle anyway.
I thought I'd post a pic of the screws that hold the reticle cell to the main body and the two brass screws that hold the reticle ring to the reticle c cell. That's a piece of black thread as a size reference. And that white surface that looks like puffy clouds is a towel.
Sometimes I just go crazy and get one with cinnamon and I think it is brown sugar on it.
It's a wonder, I don't weigh 300 pounds. Use to stop, on my way to school, for a donut daily. Saturdays, I was the first one up. Got on my bicycle and rode over to the bakery for fresh bread and donuts. When I got back, I put the coffee on.............old fashioned double boiler type pot.
