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Originally Posted by Robh
Is there any slack in the focuser? Can you collimate the scope with the focuser wound right in?
Regards, Rob.
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I attempted to collimate it with the focuser wound right in and out and it produced the same result.
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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
M,
Unhappily I have no experience with this great scope.
I can only say If you can't fix the problem, I'll take it off your hands for a reasonable fee! 
Try the Mag1 website as the new owner is reputed to be helpful and I'm pretty sure there is a Portaball users group on Yahoo. |
lol! How much is a "reasonable fee"
Unfortunately I haven't had any responses from the owner despite sending numerous e-mails, not sure if it's going to his spam folder or not
I've put in a request to join the yahoo group, hopefully can get some help there.
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Originally Posted by Satchmo
If the little donut shadow returned to the collimator base is moving about as you move the scope then there is some mechanical flexure there in the system. If everything is tight I'd go to the manufacturer. Maybe it needs stiffer mrimary mirror springs though I'm sure there would be some kind of locking bolts somewhere.
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That's exactly what's happening Mark and it was my initially concern
I'll contact Mag 1 concerning it and see what they say.
Thanks for the help guys.