colin davies wrote:

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Surely the rubber armour dropping off is a bit more than wear and tear. However, I'll give the a try.

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 How long have you had them?

colin davies wrote:

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Thanks. In theory at least, they're supposed to have a lifetime warranty so you would think that they'd be able to provide some kind of service

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 Lifetime warranty is only for manufacturing faults not wear and tear. Try Zeiss see what they say ,I know a factor is always spare parts for anything older than about 10 years these days 

colin davies wrote:

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I've got an old pair of Zeiss dialyt 7x42 which I love, and which actually I think are at least as good as my more modern Swarovski's. They're a bit battered, they need new rubber eye pieces and rubber armour and may need realigning. I'd like to get them sorted so that I can use them more often. Can anybody recommend any where I can send them for refurbishment and a little tlc? Cheers, Colin

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 You would only get that via Zeiss themselves ,but doupt that the rubber armour  is still available as the moulds will be long gone, and even the eyepiece for older models are no longer available. Different materials are used these days too and a lot of the old polyurethane that used to be used can no longer be replicated due to a lot of chemicals now being banned from use.