Not familiar with the telescope but the eyepiece was a common size on Japanese telescopes right through the 80s and into the 90s. As for other scopes made elsewhere I have no idea, I'm only familiar with cheaper scopes I'd bought around the time.
When I say cheaper I mean from a camera store, the only place I could find a telescope when I wanted one and it was far from cheap for a Tasco. I'd still have my original Tasco 0.965" 4mm eyepiece a single eyelash could block right out (and maybe others, I gave the decent quality things to my sister with a smaller scope I'd put the original Tasco focuser on). it too had .965" but it's focuser was rubbish compared to the Tasco unit (I'd modified it to remove slop).
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0.965" Eyepieces
0.965" eyepieces are from an older standard that was common among inexpensive mass produced department store telescopes. These telescopes were great for beginning astronomers and are often still good to this day. If you need to get some additional eyepieces for an .965-inch telescope, OPT has the...
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