[Space Dog (Ric)]

Hi Craig, one other possible cause of your collimation error is that your lasermate may itself need collimating.
Try loosening off your thumb screw and rotate the laser colimator 360 degrees.
You may find that the red beam wanders all over the place, if so you will need to collimate the lasermate.
I have a standard Orion laser collimator and I fixed the problem by adjusting the laser beam with the three grubs screw hidden under the brand label, so that when you rotate the colimator the beam stays in the centre.
Probably the best way to is rest the collimator on a block of wood with a suitable V cut in it to take the collimator and aim it at a wall a couple of metres away.
Cheers, Ric.