Making a finder that'll show what a reflecting scope shows...

Well, I suppose I could make a small reflector, but...

I have a pair or 10x50 binoculars with a bent frame, rendering them useless
binocularly, and I was trying to figure out if the pair of prisms could be
arranged so that a right-angle finder would show a field in the same
orientation as the reflector would show.

The prisms are not silvered on any surface, so they could be used as 90
degree ones with no trouble - if I went 90 degrees "sideways" and then 90
degrees perpendicular to the OTA, would that do what I want?


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