Chipped lens from ring marks

[wreckhog]

Bought a $15 Tasco, 3x-9x Supercon Omni View yadda yadda yadda. Put it on a gun, fiddled with adjustments, and noticed a large chip or debris when looking through the scope. Internal. Took the scope off the rings and noticed an indentation on the tube that matched the chip. Wasn't me I think; I had the scope all the way back in the rings because it has relatively little eye relief. Odd that I did not notice it before I bought it. No biggie, I was just going to throw it on a .22.

But then I noticed that I only see the chip when the scope is at 3x. 4x-9x is fine.

Why is that?

[Graybeard]

Wider field of view.

[trotterlg]

Unscrew the eye bell and see if you can shake the chips out and clean it up.  If you get the loose parts out it will probably be fine, plus, you will get to see what it looks like inside.  If that works, just spray some of the compressed keyboard/duster gas in the scope and screw it back together and things will work fine.  Larry