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Sorry guys, might have given you the wrong idea there.
He only gets to put it together.(no ownership rights implied)
Its a second scope for the family to give me some breathing space and give them some independence.
Steve,..YEP...he has a 60 mm junkyard dog . $5 TASCO refractor from a garage sale. Got it home ,threw the tripod away ,cleaned the lenses, showed him how to attach it just firmly to a pole in the backyard with a quick release clamp and hey presto ..Instant pier mounted 325x refractor come spyscope.
And to reply to the last part of your first post.
Thanks to all you guys and this site (Mike) I knew what to expect and that there are fixes available. Plus Ive had the old scope(to compare it to) for 10 years which has functioned faultlessly, only ever required general maintenance and cleaning,and I still dont have a real collimater. I still use a film container with a perfectly centred hole and follow the instructions from the original manual for this and then Startest . This had me scratching my head for ages till I worked out what your supposed to be seeing.
Geoff
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