A quick update.
Camera adapters unexpectedly arrived today!
Took only 33 days to get here...I was told by the postman these were held up at the airport...honestly we thought these were lost and Catalin kindly offered to make a new set.
Anyway, I am now ready to get back to astrophotography! Happy days! These adapters are very solid and weigh nearly 400 g; luckily the FT can (almost) hold a bucket full of water (have not tested it...)
The first image is with CFF flattener, the second with Riccardi reducer (sorry about image orientations).