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Really enjoying your detailed article on modifying the scope, certainly a lot more involved than my own endeavours but similar enough. I was fortunate that in the last 20 odd years of my working life I worked in industries that used aluminium for machine design, construction and repairs and also lots of PTFE and teflon adhesive tapes, of varying thicknesses. Always was on the lookout for the offcuts etc that otherwise would have been tossed in the bin. Managed over the time to gather lots of handy materials for telescope mods and construction.
Things like relining the focuser body and reducing the slop really make a difference to these cheap scopes. Was using a modded 70 X 400mm Barska as a guide scope last night with no problems and it cost less than $100 and just a bit ( lot ) of tinkering.
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