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Old 12-05-2010, 01:21 PM
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bmitchell82 (Brendan)
Newtonian power! Love it!

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hehehe, don't you hate it when you have a rare moment of vision, and you go what was i thinking!

with your laser collimator, you can get it reasonably good, if you have one like the orion dulux or bintel varient pull it apart, get the laser out, unscrew the end where the laser exits the unit, with a piece of tin foil put a piece over so it covers the laser lense, screw the end cap you took off just before back on, with a fine tipped pen, or thick needle pierce a hole thats pretty much in the center of the exit hole, replace the laser back into the holder and collimate using a V block. you should now have a decent enough laser for getting your collimation about right.

If your going to stay with newts and want to use them for photography, head towards cats eye collimation tools, i have a XLK auto collimator and a XL Black cat cheshire. they are unbeatable and very quick N easy to get your collimation dead on without that element of maybe.

Otherwise there are a miriad of other tools out there that are pretty good
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