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No need for the aluminium tube, I don't know how he did it, but a sheet metal worker mate from work managed to repair the crushed tubes to like new condition. A talented man.
I did not make templates, the kit is not a great design IMO, it's much lager than it has to be.
I had another setback tonight:
I'd been trying to make some sort of symmetrical arrangement of the mirror cell for over half an hour. I used a drafting triangle to draw an equilateral triangle through the collimation bolt holes to assist with alignment of the cross bars but this did not help.
I took the pieces apart again and noted there are 2 sets of different sized floatation pads! This coupled with a hole spacing error on one of the crossbars (~ 1/8" different from the rest) makes it impossible.
Just sent off another email to Astrosystems. If they say anything other than "replacement parts are on the way" I will not be a happy chappy.
I have a mirror cell I built a couple of years ago (see the for sale forum), I may just end up using it yet.
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