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I was thinking that maybe they fixed the problem after I removed my secondary and it slipped out nicely. Then I read Starklers post near the top of this page. His and Icemans scopes were purchased last year ,I'm guessing, Daves and MiGs were purchased April and Feb this year. Mine was purchased in March this year.
Maybe Bintel still had some scopes with pinched secondaries?
But MiGs was purchased from Andrews, as was mine.
So there is still an issue with QC at the factory.
Throw in the fact that these scopes are still nowhere near reasonably collimated from the factory shows their not listening hard enough, if at all. I think after 5 years someone might have mentioned this to them by now.
I have no qualms with their optics,as I've stated before, its the overall package thats a concern. Its great to have decent ap scopes available at a price thats affordable . But if someone buys one that doesnt know how to address the issues then they will be disappointed.
When it comes to tools, instruments and equipment I'm a CRITIC.
Back on subject, I dont think most people take startesting their scopes serious enough.
Regardless of which collimating tool/tools you use the only real test of how good your scope is performing is the startest.
Someone posted a half decent startest diagram(or a link to one)
to show the problems. Its a quick diagnostic check of your optics and it costs absolutely zilch to do. And it takes no time at all to do. It also shows how good your seeing is for the night as well.
The better the seeing ,the better you can assess the optics. Even during poor seeing I believe you would pick up serious faults .
Everyone wants the best out of their scope and the startest is the best method I've found for ensuring this.
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