John
You've sort of agreed with me anyway. I will be testing it myself.
Like I said, if celestron let my original scope leave their factory in such bad nick, would you really place any stock in any test they claimed to have carried out and certified anyway?????
By rights, their testing should have caught that scope long before it made it onto the truck.
By the way, that option remains open to me. If it proves necessary I can return the next scope and get Celestron to test one before shipping.
But keep in mind, this is a company that argued the toss that any scope of theirs couldn't be faulty (optically) to the degree I was claiming, and that I didn't know what I was talking about
I'm happy to try the option I'm taking, for the time being.
Let's hope the replacement's a goodun and I don't have to rely on Celestron's testing and their word for it
