Well, thanks to RickS, I managed to try the Tak scope on my RC8, and hmm, that was a totally painless exercise, all done in daylight on my kitchen bench. Collimation was off by about the thickness of the mirror donut, took all of about 5 minutes to get it perfectly concentric, and that included checking both extremes of the GSO focuser positions.
All I need now is some cloudless nights to do a star check.
I ordered the Baader from Bob Luffel yesterday, will be interested to see if it's the wrong gender on the Tak side....Pic isn't clear enough to show and since it's already shipped, not much point in asking Bob! Anyway, I'm sure I can find a 36.4 Tak gender bender at Woolies or Coles....
