Paul, Pete, James & Tony - cheers for the sentiments guys.
It's both amazing and incredibly disappointing to me that tippy top brand quality is missing in such highly rated and expensive gear.
My previous experience with Skywatcher, William Optics, Stellarvue and Sidereal Trading was completely the opposite, their stuff all just worked!
Not so amazing though to Stefan who has seen this before with commercially made stuff.
Anyway, seems that Sunday nights' forecast is clear so the next chapter of testing resumes then - fingers & toes crossed, lucky sox & undies on, prayers said etc...