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Well I decided to take the plunge and do my first clean. It wasn't as hard as I thought or what people make it out to be although I did run in to a couple of issues.
The first being one of the spacers, which seem to be very small longish rectangular cardboard, 2 different thicknesses around the corrector plate. One of these actually came out when I was blowing it out last week with the can of air, which I shouldn't have done in the first place. This was most likely forgotten from the previous owner having it apart. I'm not sure where that spacer went. The spacers that were there I took photos of and replaced them back to the correct locations however there still seems to be very slight movement in the corrector plate once putting it back together with the spacers.
The second issue was while cleaning the dust off the primary mirror I accidentally touch it with my finger knuckle a couple of times which then left a smudge, even though my hands were clean. I would recommend anyone doing this to buy a pair of those thin white cotton gloves before cleaning the primary to avoid accidentally touching the primary.
The clean went ok and inside would be 70 - 80% better than what it was but I will need to do it again and clean the primary mirror properly when I buy some distilled water during the week. The only way to get it to anywhere near 100% clean and dust free would be in a dust free laboratory environment.
Overall I'm happy with the end result but will do a better clean during the week on the primary mirror.
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