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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 151293, member: 360"]As AF said, you can see the threads where they would've screwed in. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of old pairs of binoculars were horribly abused. They have cracked and broken lenses, dents, missing parts, or people don't put them back together properly and they jam and break. I bought a pair of French binoculars once which some numbskull had pulled apart, cleaned and then put back the wrong way around. As a result I had to pull them apart entirely and flip half the pieces around before they would operate![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 151293, member: 360"]As AF said, you can see the threads where they would've screwed in. A lot of old pairs of binoculars were horribly abused. They have cracked and broken lenses, dents, missing parts, or people don't put them back together properly and they jam and break. I bought a pair of French binoculars once which some numbskull had pulled apart, cleaned and then put back the wrong way around. As a result I had to pull them apart entirely and flip half the pieces around before they would operate![/QUOTE]
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