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 Post subject: Upgrade your AO Gemolite
PostPosted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:53 pm 
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/AO-American-Opt ... _91wt_1162

This is an AO 580 which will drop into any AO 570 equipped Gemolite. It has six to one zoom from 1X to 6X initial magnification. This means that unlike regular AO pods you don't use 15x oculars on them because you can't get 10x with those oculars. If you do use 15X oculars you can go up to 90X without an auxiliary lens.
It looks like the oculars on it are 10x but if they are not you can get them anywhere for very little money. (including from me)

This one also has an almost coaxial illuminator on it. It uses a 6 volt lamp of 15-20 watts. If somebody buys it I will help them get a power supply for the illuminator.

Very nice , inexpensive and easy to do upgrade. Like Wild scopes these have prism erector systems.


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