Just a thought I'd drop a note as I had to tell somebody I've re-joined the Dob community.
I took a gamble on a recent ebay purchase of a 12" Meade Lightbridge just down the road from me. Sounded alright, came with 2 Televue Type VI Naglers, Meade 26mm QX, 12" Orion Solar Cap, Laser Collimator, 35mm Extension tube and Bobs Knobs.
The eyepiece holder had been broken off, and the altitude brake was a bit bent, but it didn't look too bad in the pictures. So I put a killer bid on with seconds to go, and low and behold I ended up winning the auction well short of what I expected to pay.
When I saw the scope, and checked out the optics I thought you beauty ..... picked up a bargain here ..... for a couple of hundred short of a grand
Have a done a full once over, used the scope a few times, and am extremely happy with my purchase, which will be my quick set-up scope.
Got to say, there are some bargains out there
