{"id":9237,"date":"2026-09-19T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:45:09","slug":"binoculars-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=9237","title":{"rendered":"Binoculars &#8211; no good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[today&#8217;s run 3.38  (just past the bamboo house)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After my run I worked on changing the oil in the lawnmower.  I had received a couple of oil filters that I ordered from Amazon.  I had some left over oil from doing car oil changes awhile back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the oil drained out and the filter changed then filled it up again.  90.1 hours on the meter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used some compressed air and cleaned off the deck and the crannies around the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then later we drove down the Laurel to get flu shots at Walmart and we did our weekly grocery shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way home we stopped at an estate sale and I bought a funny mug and on old pair of binoculars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The binoculars were a cheaper brand, and I couldn&#8217;t really see out of them.  It looked like more of a problem going on than just cleaning the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After putting the groceries away I worked on the binoculars and I was able to take them partially apart.  I determined there was a big cleaning issue as well as being apparentlly out of alignment.  When I tried to clean, I just made things worse. So I ended up taking things further apart including breaking some of the plastic tube pieces.  I harvested a the large front lenses which cleaned up real nice, and the two prisims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any real plans for the optics but they are kind of interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was worth the $5 I spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[today&#8217;s run 3.38 (just past the bamboo house)] After my run I worked on changing the oil in the lawnmower. I had received a couple of oil filters that I ordered from Amazon. I had some left over oil from doing car oil changes awhile back. I got the oil drained out and the filter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}