Yeah the bad luck was the result of an accident causing the collimation to go slightly out, and getting recommended by the local distributor to an Australian company that said they could re-collimate the Toa130. They instead totally stuffed it up and it had to go back to Japan for a complete re-build. I was totally miffed I can tell you.
It is as new now, but it cost me big dollars. So if anyone tells you that there is someone in Australia that can fix a Tak Refractor, they are talking crap. You would not believe what the Tak rep told me about the job these guys did on the scope and the condition it was in when they received it. Absolute amateurs!!