MH  you are really Fecked now


there is a youtube video that gives a step-by step on crosshair replacement.  I think I saved it because I have a suer target spot with cross hares that are at least a Moa thick.   If I find it I'll post the link for you.  also one of the guys in the For sale section sells the "proper" tungsten wired to do a repair.  there were a couple specialty houses that did noting but wire replacement and one did crosshair & dot work  but I think they are shut down.   
Maybe someone else knows or a reliable service that does not have a year or more backlog.

QuestionableMaynard8130 wrote on Feb 16^th, 2015 at 2:44pm:


That's a very good tutorial but, Feckers use screws to hold the X hairs.

Frank

on that "250"    

Some hairs are soldered some are glued some are wound around screws---trick is to make sure they are wound the right way so the screw draws them down and pulls them tight.  critical thing is---or so I've been told as to have good high contrast lighting the wire is DAMN hard to see and a magnifying lens either a head set or some sort of clamp-on.     I bought a clamp on flex-shaft work light with a fluorescent ring lamp (to reduce shadows) that has a magnifying lens in the center.  I have not gotten around to the scope project yet---maybe on a few weeks; but I have used it for other delicate work and I really like it

forty two years ago I had and have a Malcolm scope on a Stevens .22 rifle. crosshairs broken so I took two hairs from our three month old daughters head [ouch]  and glued them it. Still there and working. About a five power glass. And BE SURE to tell the wife what you are doing.

I bought the tungsten wire. I thought about using hair or stripped-to-a-single-thread unwaxed dental floss; but decided against it.  The old scopes are usually not humidity sealed and I got to thinking that the natural fibres might shift a little with humidity changes. It might to be that much but I can't afford to allow any avoidable errors,  besides the wire is really a pretty cheap investment.

I have .001 tungsten wire that is for sale. The scope power determines how fine a wire. The higher the power the thinner you want. JMO

I gave up trying to use the .0005 tungsten wire.

Even with new glasses I could not see the wire (to work with it). 
Had to go to the thicker wire to see what I was operating on.