hawke frontier 8x43ed lens cap help pls

[natureshooter]

Just having bought these im dead impressed,only one niggle is the lens caps on the front objective,has a rubber ring that wraps around the binocular to hold the lens cap on.
Is there any way of slightly shrinking this ring to get a firmer grip and stop them falling off?

Was going to heat up and see if it shrunk a bit.

Dont know really

All help appreciated.

Thankyou
Gary

[Hobjob]

Very few birders bother with caps, except with eyepiece caps when raining. It is something to slow up "the draw" and something else to lose.

Leave them in the car (or the dustbin)!!

[Kayleigh]

I do the same as Hobjob, walk with the bins round my neck and keep them under my coat while walking..
I only use the caps at home or when the bins are in the case if I take them out in the car.

[natureshooter]

hey now why didnt i think of that,i knew that really.

I did however manage to put the loop end in boiling water a few minutes and when cooled gave a nice grip.

but seriously,i will leave them off when out,i like them on while in kit bag though,raingaurd for eyepieces is fine,i always use that.

Cheers all.

First proper day out with them today,and i got to say i love them,very bright and clear.

Thanks again
Gaz

[wizzo]

Hi Gary. Like you, I've recently invested in a pair of Hawke Frontier 10x43's. I have posted before on how stunning these bins are. However, I'd forgotten to mention the annoying lens cap issue! I managed to double over the retaining band (if you get my drift), and that seems to have worked, to a degree at least. Mind you, I hadn't realised, that virtually all the birders I know, take off their caps from the objective lens, and either discard them, or leave them in the case. Wizzo