Good grief, can someone tell me the secret to getting the little NLPure FP strap attachment back on? (1 Viewer)

[Bubbs]

Buy Zeiss SF’s 😀

 

[Maljunulo]

I'm wondering how tight the tolerances are on thickness of the "button" that the pin goes through.

If it were just a little bit too thick, it would be almost impossible to lock the pin in.

Maybe there is something I am missing.

 

[BabyDov]

So if you bend or break a pin, is the strap still attachable or is it game over?

The pins are quite short and relatively thick and therefore, difficult to bend, let alone, break. I see no way of attaching the strap, if that did happen. You would have to send your NL's back to Swaro for repair. The game is never over, when you own a Swaro.

 

[BabyDov]

I'm wondering how tight the tolerances are on thickness of the "button" that the pin goes through.

If it were just a little bit too thick, it would be almost impossible to lock the pin in.

Maybe there is something I am missing.

You are correct that if the pin is not pushed through the button all the way until it clicks, it would be impossible to lock the pin into place on the binoculars.
However, I doubt that there is that much variance in the button thickness, from one button to the next. If there were, that could be a problem. PeterPS mentioned that Swaro can send you longer pins, which should make this a non-issue with any button.

 

[PeterPS]

So if you bend or break a pin, is the strap still attachable or is it game over?

It would be game over, but in my opinion you are more likely to lose a pin than to break it, and if you lost the pins I am sure that Swaro will send you replacements for free.

 

[PeterPS]

The pins are quite short and relatively thick and therefore, difficult to bend, let alone, break. I see no way of attaching the strap, if that did happen. You would have to send your NL's back to Swaro for repair.

In most cases you would just need new pins, and nothing else.

The game is never over, when you own a Swaro.

You should email that to Dale Forbes, Swaro marketing people might like to use it in their commercials.

 

[PeterPS]

Actually I have attached straps to 3 different NLs. That's not a large enough sample, perhaps. However, they were all tighter than the FP El, but not all that different from each other. I am 77 years old without the grip strength I used to have. Yet, with the right grip, I did it. With the wrong grip, I couldn't.

As far as a Swarovski dealer struggling to attach the strap is not surprising. How many of them would even bother to first read the instructions, when they are supposed to know it all?

In my opinion the right grip is pretty obvious. Anyway, the main point of my example based on John Cantelo's post was that the same person (expert or not) needed 5min for one side and then 20 min for the other, which clearly illustrates the variation even within the same pair of binos. It is quite possible that more recent examples of the NLs do not suffer from this problem as much as earlier ones. The compromise is clear: very tight connectors and a strap that does not twist, or looser connectors and a strap that can be mounted more easily but that might also twist.

 

[PeterPS]

I'm wondering how tight the tolerances are on thickness of the "button" that the pin goes through.

If it were just a little bit too thick, it would be almost impossible to lock the pin in.

Maybe there is something I am missing.

That's exactly what happens: on some examples the button is too thick and it is very hard to lock the pin in (if the button was made of rubber that would not be a problem but it's made of hard plastic).

 

[BabyDov]

In most cases you would just need new pins, and nothing else.

Of course, but if the top of the pin broke off, and the bottom of the pin is locked in place, it might not be so easy to remove that broken portion. That's what I meant that Swarovski would probably need to fix it. Yet, I can't imagine how that would happen, except if you dropped your bino's and they landed directly on the attachment point. In that case, you might be sending your NL's back to Swaro to fix more than just the broken pin.

 

[Sandra Jacobson]

Beware if your bins are not securely attached. I have both EL and a brand new NL bins that did not stay attached. I didn't drop my EL's once the pin fell out (on a road in Peru! thankfully I noticed right away!), but with my brand new, one month old NL's I was not so lucky. One drop in Jamaica and they are out of alignment. I am extremely irritated by how difficult these new attachments are to get correct. Since I've used 4 total (2 on each of my bins), and each was different in how easy to attach or not, I think Swarovski needs to redesign this system. Or send the binoculars with the loop attachment from the factory instead of expecting a 70+ year old to be able to see and adjust them. Crazy hard system (and yes I read the instructions and watched videos).

 

[rodneyAB]

Beware if your bins are not securely attached. I have both EL and a brand new NL bins that did not stay attached. I didn't drop my EL's once the pin fell out (on a road in Peru! thankfully I noticed right away!), but with my brand new, one month old NL's I was not so lucky. One drop in Jamaica and they are out of alignment. I am extremely irritated by how difficult these new attachments are to get correct. Since I've used 4 total (2 on each of my bins), and each was different in how easy to attach or not, I think Swarovski needs to redesign this system. Or send the binoculars with the loop attachment from the factory instead of expecting a 70+ year old to be able to see and adjust them. Crazy hard system (and yes I read the instructions and watched videos).

Sorry to hear of the damage. The pins do require some practice, but once properly placed, they are secure.