The military manuals have a different axle design since they are Individual Focus (I.F.).
I have a bin with the CF axle frozen, and the CF wheel broke in two trying to leverage it with pliers.
So even at the expense of ruining the collimation, I want to take the thing apart.
I have not found an exploded diagram of a CF axle.
Might be that after you remove the big brass flange nut on the botton, there might be a silver insert, visibly threaded on its interior to take the flange nut, but maybe reverse threaded on the outer perimeter to tighten it to the hinges? But my pin wrench won't fit the small holes to get the flange numt off... I have 3 such wrenches, and each has broken the smaller pins, and I cannot find replacement pins at all. Don't want to spend $70 for a new set... Maybe drill my own, larger holes...
The other alternative, since the CF shaft is fully retracted, is to try to grab onto the part exposed by the removal of the CF wheel, even though it would ruin those threads. I'd have to glue the two halves of the CF wheel in any case.
Oh, I cannot remove the left focus arm because it is attached to the CF disc by two big brass screws, inserted from the BOTTOM not the top. So I cannot get a driver on them. Stupid design choice. This is a Bushnell Bino-Foto.
