Hi Matt,
Many thanks for your reply and will gladly accept your wish me luck here.
Will find a thick pole or stump and give it a big whack or two to see if I can nudge this baffle further down the tube and not tilt it or bend it...
If it does move, I think this baffle will be pretty fixed and won't move around without adding any glue, whatever i can move it further down the tube.
If that doesn't work, if the baffle is aluminium and thin enough, I am thinking of using a utility knife, extend the blade and reach it (after all it is closer to the objective end) by cutting small 1 cm incisions all along the inner perimeter of that baffle ring and then fold it back bit by bit to enlarge the opening if I can reach it and fold it back with a plier or something. Then repaint the then enlarged and less than perfect circle in black for any shiny cut of raw metal due to my DIY.
Waste of aperture from 70mm to 60mm as it is at the moment as light gathering power is quintessential for astronomy, which I am using it for.
I can take the objective lens out after unscrewing the retainer ring, and the doublet is spaced by a plastic ring, not spacer tabs, but it is a real good quality doublet lens on my used unit (after I cleaned the real filthy objective lens both end when I first got it). I was real impressed to see the arrow marked at the edges of the Crown and Flint glass lens, so you know exactly where they should match each other when put back together for alignment and collimation.
That much I established with this unit's doublet lens when I star tested it on Sirius, hope it will stay this way when I enlarge it to its full 70mm aperture. The same with my Synta 70mm f900 frac, the objectives on that frac is also real nice.
I agree with you, this little scope (at the moment) gives great views, and in mine it is violet free on the Moon's limb with 6.5mm + 2x barlow (153x), despite at f7.1, to my surprise!
I don't think my Synta 70mm f900 was that violet free on the Moon's limb, need to try it later on to compare at around the same power.
Thanks heaps again for your quick reply, much appreciated.
Bill