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Old 01-11-2007, 07:56 AM
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Congratulations, on the new scope.
After you've had a play with it, I recommend that you replace the primary springs and the primary and secondary collimation knobs.
The stiffer springs will hold the collimation in place much better than the soft "original" ones.
After you've "battled" with the original collimation knobs you'll know why you need the new ones.
You can buy the set of springs and knobs through Bintel (these are Bobs Knobs) or you can get slightly different looking knobs from www.Astronomy-Shoppe.com in the U.S. The price is about the same, I bought these.
Del time is about 1 week.
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