My finderscope is all fixed now, I ended up using one of my wifes hairs which ended up being the same thickness as what Meade uses and it looks perfect.
At first it was a bit tricky focussing in with the old dodgy eyeballs but I got there.
A big thanks to everyone for their thoughts and ideas, it was all greatly appreciated.
I also decided not to go for the telrad style as suggested by Madtuna.
Cheers