[UniPol]

I recall having to collimate my Tak SKY-90 some years ago but was relatively simple as it is only a doublet. A William Optics FLT-110 triplet I bought off IIS some years ago was sent to WO in Taiwan to be cleaned and collimated as it had mould on the middle element ( the seller didn’t disclose that at the time). Only the cell had to be sent and WO charged a flat rate of $100 USD including return postage for this service. I received it back in about six weeks and it was absolutely pristine and perfectly collimated and all up cost me around $150 USD. I believe Tak insist on sending the OTA back to Japan and remember Claude telling me once that freight within Japan is very expensive, you could be looking at $2000 all up to have a TOA-130 cleaned and re-collimated (and months to boot). It would be great if a professional cleaning and collimating service could be offered here in Australia, peace of mind at least if anything untoward happened to our pride and joys.