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Author Message   Rick_oleson Tinkerer Username: Rick_oleson Post Number: 1337 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 02:20 pm:    If you're REALLY lazy, you can dim the VF window with a spot of Sharpie pen ink on the front of the glass and make the RF usable in a pinch. For a long term fix without dimming the finder so much, replacing the beamsplitter with a new one really makes the rangefinder pop. 50x50x1mm beamsplitter stock is available (last time I checked) from scientificsonline (Edmund Scientific). To reassemble the top cover: loop a piece of fine sewing thread around the frame counter pawl and pass both ends of the thread through the RF adjust hole in the front. Use this to pull the pawl out of the way during reassembly, then let go of one end of the thread and pull it out through the hole when you're finished.