Antique World War I Monocular Restoration - Carl Zeiss Jena
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2020
- This week I restored this World War I monocular used by the Germans and made by Carl Zeiss. It’s a pleasure to restore such a high quality piece of optics. There is a lot of dust and dirt inside so you can barely see anything through the lens. The surface needs some restoration as well.
I decided to leave the eye piece assembled because it was constructed so that I would have had to damage it to disassemble and I wasn’t sure I could put it back together as well as it was. Also I didn’t see any major dirt or other reason inside to give me an excuse to risk it.
After the disassembly I cleaned the brass parts with ketchup and then polished those with wool wheels and polishing compound. Ketchup is a great way to remove patina from brass. It contains vinegar and also some enzymes which help with removing the oxidation. It also doesn’t smell and it is readily in easy to apply formula. Vinegar is also more aggressive which could leave to damage to my unoxidized brass.
The aluminum sheets or caps from the ends of the monocular body were stripped from paint and sanded down and polished as well. The one with text was sanded with 250, 400, 800, 1200 and 2000 grit sand paper. With the one with the text I started lightly from 400 to preserve the text.
I also tried paint stripper for the monocular body but the texture on it didn’t come off well. It only softened a little. I decided to scrape most of it off with a screwdriver and then remove rest with scotch bright wheel. I didn’t have to bee too careful not to scratch the body because I would cover it in leather anyways.
Other parts were cleaned with acetone.
To cover the monocular with leather I had to first sand the leather a little thinner. I tried to press it evenly on the belt sander. This was very slow process. I probably should have used rougher belt but I had never done this before. Then the leather was soaked in water to allow me to streck it to the shape of the monocular. This made it much easier to glue it on.
I mixed some silicone with a little of acetone to make it flow better and used a syringe and a needle to apply a thin line to seal the ends during the assembly. Hopefully this will reduce the collecting of dust inside the monocular so the visibility will stay as good as I got it.
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6:18
Me: Is that ketchup? No its probably something else that looks like ketchup
"The vinegar and enzymes in ketchup will help me clean the brass"
me: ....oh....
I thought that too🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was such a big brain moment. Ketchup...
Sameee
Made the exact same comment... great minds.
Yeah me too LOL 😂😂
i am from Jena! so this piece was actually made in my hometown a long time ago...
Me too!
This is a great th-cam.com/users/postUgkxc4K63Fd5LglDMObu7-Bgapxp_ef0W8hE monocular. It adjusts easily and works well in most conditions. I attached a pic of the view through my phone (iPhone 13 max pro). With some more adjustments it would probably be fine. I would just use this by holding up to my eye and forget trying to capture pics through my phone. It comes with an attachment piece to your phone, a tripod, a lanyard, cleaning cloth and a holster that can be worn on your belt. Overall the image quality is good.
This is in surprisingly fantastic condition for something more than 103 years old
Chug
Chug
Good condition? If I cut your car in half, would you say it's still in good condition? It's a broken in half pair of binoculars. I have that very model......or should I say mine is complete lol ;-)
They built quality back then. That means that if maintained or serviced correctly it will last.
I’ll be honest, it took me a few seconds to realize that by “liquid ice” you just meant water. I thought it was some cleaning product called Liquid Ice
Join the club
Same
you must be new to the channel :)
Yes, it's condensed steam.
Yeah, strange name for the hydric acid XD
Watching you restoring historical artifacts is very satisfying.
ruining you mean
@@jero1998 Nope.
@@jero1998 on this occasion i fear you are right, shall we call it the Portobello Market restoration syndrome where everything is polish to death and beyond. Although the work is of its usual, and expected, high standard, a matt/satin black finish would be more in keeping with an historic artefact, bling bling not so.
@@chrisstephens6673 i agree, besides that, repainting it would decreese the valeau aswell. he should only have kept it at cleaning the prism and lens. sad to see many wartime objects being ruined by the "polishing disease"
are you zeref
Dude, I love your videos. Just recently i have had trouble sleeping and seeing things being taken apart and put back together has helped me so much, especially during college. The restoration videos for consoles actually helped me figure out the problems with a gamecube and Gameboy Advanced I found in my landlord's basement and how to fix them. Your style of videos may not be flashy or attention getting, but the style of them is so comforting and educational! It's a part of why i'm starting to get into restoration!
(I know that this probably won't get seen but I just needed to write it anyway.)
The Lord of the Rings joke was great 😊 Hienoo jälkee.
8:38, by the way
Did you mean to say great afterwards or something else because that doesn’t make sense
It means ”Good job.” In Finnish.
8:38 loved the reference
one lens to rule them all
🎆🐲🎇👍👍🍻
Look like ring and sonic the hedgehog
yeah why did he do that for, I don't get it
@Dillinger R. don't know if you mean it seriously or not but if yes its a lord of the rings refrence
"All the tools will be linked in the description" no link to the liquid ice
lmao
IKR SMH how am I supposed to get liquid ice now?
Liquid Ice is only available to trained professionals.
I think you can make it at home
I also heard in the news that they found some Liquid Ice on Mars some time back. 😉
One of the best optics manufacturer out there. Great job restoring their part of history. That most don't know. They make some of the best camera lens not yet most don't know the history, And most don't know that Zeiess started with sniper scopes. Which is funny cause they make some of the best lens for cameras now yet most don''t know the history on the cmapany. And yes if you can pay for it still still makes scopes yet they are the high end of price just like their camera lens,.
the one ring reference was a nice touch xD
I was a optical instrument repairman in the US Navy 1956. You did a great job!
Would you be interested in designing a new monocular for us?
@@pythonoptic I think it would be fun but at 84 I don't have the equipment anymore. In the day I built a lot of optical equipment.
@@zpoedog Just let us know what you need
@@pythonoptic Thanks but no thanks.
I notice the monocular was supposed to "zoom" from 4x20 but didn't see any evidence of that function. He stated that turning the adjustment ring was just for focus. Did we miss something?
As soon as I saw the brass ring, I said, “One ring to rule them all!” And then you disappeared 😂
I did the exact same 😂
This is the comment I came looking for.
👍👍😁😁Cheers 🍻
🎆🎇🐲
Like as soon as it was shiny I was imagining the eye staring down from the tower then the ring was put on and everything went dark
Hah me too!! Exactly what I did lol
Nerds
My grandfather worked for Carl zeiss Jena. Greetings from Germany!
Switch from x-acto knives to surgical scalpels. Much sharper, letting you do more careful precise work. Blades also inexpensive.
Scalpel blade for leather cutting. X-Acto C-type blade for cardboard.
For a second I was like “Is that ketchup?!?” It is
Yes, is ketchup. The vinegar and enzymes clean the brass.
you must be new to the channel :)
It is also useful for cleaning copper.
@@LucianoGardim Except in not one video has it helped one iota more than what regular cleaning would have accomplished. It is just one of those stupid tricks that cropped up on one of those "life hacks" channels years ago and everyone keeps doing it. Despite the fact that it really is just worse than basically every other method. I could accomplish in 2 minutes with acetone, rubbing alcohol or just plain soap and water what the ketchup did in an hour.
@@cuttwice3905 It really isn't.
From the headlines of the newspaper, he's from Finland.
Yes I am
@@OddTinkering I'm from Brazil. City of Bauru.
Finalmente um brasileiro
@@samueljorge231 Eu tbm sou brasileiro
and he's an ex convict, we don't have much information about it though. some say he killed a guy with just a bottlecap of a minttu bottle
Very cool. I love vintage optical instruments.
You’re a meticulous and gifted craftsman. Thank-you - for resurrecting the artifacts of our heritage into a useful new life, a life that can be shared with future generations. Thanks too... for sharing these skills with the rest of us, it’s a noble endeavor.
You're like that cool uncle that is always tinkering in the garage. I admire your knowledge and skills. Please keep the videos coming! :)
11:27 "I repeated this until I was happy" story of my life
I watch your videos every night before i sleep. They are just like ASMR videos
With the vast array of restoration TH-cam videos, from aircraft right down to something as simple as this. This more fascinating the restoration of a car. You would not think something so simple as this would besore entertaining. I could watch this all day it's clever and doable to the average Joe.
"Liquid Ice" made me question my existence.
SAME I was like wtf kinda chemical is LIQUID ICE I’ve never heard of it that was 2 weeks ago
Now I just feel dumb
"Liquid Ice" ya mean water? 😂
@@Ekvorivious no shit
😀😀😀😀 Liquid ice..... Lol.. 😄😄
This Liquid from planet Saturnus
I just realized ...LIQUID ICE . Oh dear i must be losing it . Well , i will soon be 69 .
What a beautiful job you've done! The view through it is so clear compared to before, and the leather looks so very nice. I got a good chuckle out of the Liquid Ice and the One Ring, your videos always make me smile. Thank you for that! =)
Not to mention the ace tone
I have such huge respect for people like you who see these items in terrible condition and think "yes, I can give this a new life" especially something seemingly useless or unwanted like this monocular. Being that it's from ww1 I'm surprised it survived this long and I'm very happy to see it looking new again.
You are now officially one of my favorate youtubers
The "black stuff" is leather, originally glued to the surface. Lots of camera bodies were done the same way.
its a real pain when it starts to flake and peel: Source: Have a few cameras like that
When you touched the black stuff, it said:"MMMHMMMMM!".
@@1337fraggzb00N Mel Brooks removed one quote from Blazing Saddles, which would have gone, "Lady, I don't want to disappoint you, but that's my arm you're holding." You know the scene.
@@fredferd965 actually I never watched Blazing Saddles. Now I'm sad.
@@1337fraggzb00N The German Woman Dance Hall Lady is seducing the Black sheriff. ALL of the lights are off (you don't see anything), and she is becoming, well "excited' would be the best word for it. Mel Brooks cut that line from the film because it was over the top.
I love the historical stuff you restore.
I wonder if that is trench or no mans land dirt?🤔. I've always wanted to visit Verdun and passchendaele. See all the monuments and stuff :3. I can't believe they still find artillery shells to this day. And there are still some of those mines filled explosives that are missing. Lightning has found a couple lol
Bravo, ready for the next 100 years!
I like how it doesn't look to brand new just. I like new old stock restos like this
I absolutely loved this video. I laughed harder than a fail compilation watching this. The ring thing? That was so awesome!! Mad props for that. And liquid ice! I laughed immeditely because it took me a second to see what you did there. Bravo!!
lt is quite amazing for me to see you using the liquid form of ice. pretty cool
Its actually not ice or cleaning product but its water if u want to know
Very nice restoration. I would have been very nervous taking that optical assembly apart, but you showed it’s pretty straightforward. The leather and sealant were nicely done. The ketchup cleaning was a new one to me. Should be able to get another 100 years out of this!
It's 2:30am, and I've been watching your videos for an hour. I should be sleeping, but I have to see how this thing looks before I fall asleep. Thank you!
This has to be one of my favorite videos of yours that I've seen. Amazing restoration!
bouta see deep into 2020 with these.
Especially the leather coating process was like the cherry on the cake.
Великолепная работа!
Шикарный прибор!
Average people: ketchup
Me, an intellectual: liquid tomatoes.
Tomato glue
LOL
me, a legend: THE DELICIOUS BLOOD OF A TOMATO
Tomato flesh
Coming to you from the creators of Liquid Ice
So many references - I love it! That turned out very awesome in the end. It's so satisfying to watch you disassemble and restore stuff.
... liquid ice, right? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 ... cool!
I didn't know the trick with the ketchup - nice! I liked the slap stick with the one and only ring, to rule them all! The way of getting the leather into shape is very efficient - very good!
Greetings from Germany from the silver fox, David 😉🦊
Ketchup is a good idea. Their work I like very much!
8:38 lord of the ring
hobbit
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I thought the same thing right before he put out on lmao
Nice to explain the jokes for the idiots.
MFW a monocular built at the turn of the last century is restored to working condition and my phone needs to be replaced every 18 months.
@@asm2750 the thing is the quality isn't decreaseing it's just tbe complexity increasing more the parts more the chances of failure
Then how about you make a phone that can last a centure.
@@logickedmazimoon6001 that isn't possible with current battery technology or silicons degradation which eventually gives a non usable but working phone
@@logickedmazimoon6001 I still have phones phone 2009 running Android they work*
Hey and don’t forget it had been through a war but it’s more then likely going be left in a museum then used practically again to be fair
I LIKE SO VERY YOUR ENGLISH . IS PERFECT .
ALSO I LIKE YOUR CHANEL .
THANK YOU AND GRETTINS ! ! . 👍😉👋
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New sub here. Awesome content. Thank you for restoring and not just disposing!
Much love, Poor Girl.
Also thank you for no music... crappy license free music is usually a major distraction. Wish I could be in a shop working and learning. But great respect for your content.
I swear that any single time he uses ketchup a little fragment of my soul is broken
But why?
It's really the only good use for ketchup
8:38 I love this Lord of the rings reference ❤️ very cheeky, but very much appreciated 😁
One ring to rule them all!
Nice restoration! It’s a sight to behold.
Happiness is when I'm seeing you restore the past😍
not when its a sight that a nazi used to kill allies tho makes me cringe a little bit l(
I agree 👍
With Henry
l love what you do and the things you restore are incredible before and after, l really love them all
Such a simple yet, complex piece of tech
I think the C-Z Jena factory used the same leather and glue on my Exacta Exa from the early 50's, It had been used in the orchard industry to photograph hybrid blooms and the leather had deteriorated to the point where it had to come off. Like yours it was easier said then done. Thank you for great work and sharing. Narragansett Bay.
The prisms aren't in there to flip or unflip the image, they're there to increase the effective distance the light travels between the objective lens and the eyepiece. The magnification factor is essentially the result of the strength of the eyepiece which is limited by certain things, and the distance the light travels between the lenses. Binoculars need to be quite short to be useful (otherwise they'd be a real strain to hold to your eyes) so clever people found ways to make light travel farther than the length of the thing it's inside.
tHaTS a LoT oF wORdS
SpringHoney thats a lot of sarcasm.
kinda like a klipsch folded horn only with light. cool thanks!
@@Shitbird3249 Maybe get some education so you'll understand physics better.
@@harleyy1548 Too much for you to read you lazy ass?
I actually almost missed the reference to the Lord of the Rings just after 8 minutes and 40 seconds. Very clever, good one.
You can see all the build up and corrosion inside the threading. Nice!
Zeiss -Jena made incredible high quality and sharpness optic devices, you not only have a piece of history from WWI, you have too an excelent monocular.
This is like an antique cyborg eye
I never knew I needed one of these... It is a work of art!
Thanks for demonstrating how prisms work.
I have to admit I'm a total history nerd, with warfare being my particular passion. Whilst I prefer ancient warfare, I do know quite a bit about the two world wars. I had family fight in them and 5 great uncles died in WW1, the sixth came back with terrible problems due to mustard gas. Even though he died whilst I was still under 10, I remember his terrible breathing and some of the few stories he told me. I think he started my interest in historical warefare and frontline medicine. The monocular you have is what a commissioned officer from WW1 would've had, such as a lieutenant. The commissioned officers were wealthy and could afford such luxuries. Others, such as NCOs and ordinary soldiers had to make do with makeshift 'periscopes'. Larger and more easily seen by enemy snipers. To see this monocular, that my own great uncles would've seen senior officers using similarly at the battlefields they fought and died on (two being Ypres and the Somme), so lovingly well restored makes my heart happy. It looks as if some posh young officer is just about to pick it up before going off to France, thinking it would all be over by Christmas 1914............THANK YOU on behalf of all of us who had family fight in a conflict.
Use "salsa Valentina" for cleaning brass, it's a Mexican hot sauce, and it's so good that even some town use it for cleaning statues instead of the usual chemical.
@jimrdguez Si we, limpia el bronce bien chingon.
elpais.com/internacional/2013/10/18/actualidad/1382054376_559798.html
La mejor salsa qué hay en Mexico 🇲🇽
"Liquid Ice?" Oh! You mean "Dihydrogen Monoxide!"
Isn't that stuff super toxic?
(/Snark)
@@ethelryan257 Absolutley! It's been known to wrinkle your skin!
Available on amazon from a good number of vendors as well, plus some also give you other enhancing additives with it to enhance it's effect, and they can have vary varied results depending on the dose used.
@@ethelryan257 In large enough quantities, it can kill. Some years ago, a large dihydrogen monoxide spill nearly destroyed the nation of Japan.
Everyone who consumes it dies..
Probably never been dismantled for 100 years, amazing stuff....
Not here to shit on your comments but those were used on the African Front of WW2. So, it probably wasn't dismantled in 80+ years, still a long time, but not quite a century
Very nice 👍🏽. Very handy gadget made by a quality manufacturer.
You did a great job. I've been working as a contractor for carl zeiss, or jenoptik as they're called now, before and i've learned how sensitive these lenses can be. I figure that a WW1 monocular is more robust than what they do today, but still needs to be handled with caution, which is what you did. I also liked how you explained how these optics work in general, and if I wasn't already subscribed to your channel, man you'd have earned it with this one. Keep on going with the good work, best wishes.
Polish that thing up nice. That's what you want, your equipment glinting and sparkling in the sun. It let's others know just where you are.
Yes, because the owner of the monocular will be using it in combat
...да -уш!, цейсовская оптика считается одной из самых известных и популярных фирм, самая лучшая для своего времени, да и сейчас пользуется спросом!!!
I adore this channel because of the variety of objects being restored. I haven't seen any other restoration channel dealing with leather.
Both restoration and camera work were outstanding. You talents are noted and appreciated.
polishes the thing to perfection that every enemy sniper could see the reflection of light
Great job of restoration and also a tribute to the craftsmen at Carl Zeiss. One of the finest makers of optical instruments in the world. Again wonderful restoration work. I enjoyed every second.
By far, my favorite of your restorations, well done!!!
Odd Tinkering has some of the best editing in the whole TH-cam restoration scene.
I totally agree, him and My Mechanics are on the same level, it's a very small, select group to be in.
Loved the lotr thing tho!
@@MrToeSr Lord of the Rings
I was going to make a comment about this lmao, not too many people got that.
Lol i was looking for this! I almost thought no one caught the lotr bit.
The LotR reference alone deserves a thumbs up.
this was the finest representation of restoration. carl zeiss is synonymous with leica and contax,
Marvelous job. Thank you for saving this eyesore.
"Liquid ice" makes me want to drink fresh cold water. Would be a nice bottled water product idea.
Omg. And it's aggressively marketed like it isn't water. " NO. IT'S BETTER THAN WATER" That would be hilarious.
This guys sense of humor is on another level
Beautiful piece! Excellent job.
As a history buff, I was internally squealing the whole time, thank you.
Impressive. I'm always amazed when you work with leather, it looks like a load of crap until in the end it looks real pretty :)
Well done.
I like vermuch for recycling the old one to new one I appreciate your effefort and workmanship
The nice one that came out, like new. Very nice video, well done 👏👏👏
Liquid ice ... you mean solid steam I suppose ;-) Great restauration . Bravo!
Every enemy Sniper in WW1 would be happy if the enemy used high polished monoculars ;) the code called -> reflections are bad!!
But it looks really nice :D
that sight prolly took out quit a few allies funny how we are watching this guy call it a signal sight and its now being repaired funny world we live in lemme tell yya
Looks exactly like one half of an old pair of binoculars we had!
These videos makes me want to restore things.
The monocular still had a case with a leather cover, on the button and a belt through the shoulder.
6:18
me: haha, that cleaning solution looks like ketchup
6:26
me: ***mindblown***
Good workmanship with a difficult job
Love watching your workmanship, I congratulate you, sheer magic.
i like how he calls the water "liquid ice"
Boneless water
lvl 2 steam
Love the editing :)
Thanks, it took me way too long this time 😁
I finally know what those prisms are for! My son had one. Beautiful restoration.
The prisms are stunningly beautiful and dazzling!