Hi All,
Well after wasting 3 good nights on the long weekend I'm just about ready to give it a drop kick
I sent the email below to the supplier but no reply, not even a peep
"After waiting for a week for the weather to clear up so I can try out the Orion Deluxe OAG.
Well what a disappointment it has been I wasted 3 good imaging nights on the long weekend, I tried/read/tried and tried to bring the OAG into focus to no avail to top it all off last evening I got really frustrated and removed the SS Starshoot autoguider and attached it to the 80 mm Orion short tube I have attached to the main WO 110 scope and decided to take some long 15 min images.
At the end of the night when I parked the scope I heard this almighty bang on to the floor when I turned on the light to see what happened I noticed that the OAG had come apart and dropped to the floor, the barrel that holds the prism stayed behind attached to the OAG body, but the part with the 2 lock screws and the prism adjusting screw came apart and onto the floor, lucky I didn’t have the autoguider on the OAG at the time, no damage occurred to the parts that fell down but I had a hell of a time finding the small rod that fits under the adjusting prism screw, eventually I did find it.
I then worked out how to assemble the unit again and made sure that the 2 allen keys, which lock the unit that has the( 2 Thumb lock screws and the prism adjustment screw) together to the barrel that holds the prism were tightened correctly, these couldn’t have been tightened correctly in the first place and unless the OAG was pulled apart I would not have noticed that these held it all together, I noticed earlier that the unit wasn’t tightening with the 2 thumb lock screws, I was going to look at this the next day.
I would send the unit back for a refund but due to the many configurations to try to get the unit to focus most of the adapters have been scratched, I would still like to have another go at getting it setup to at least get focus let alone get a star in the FOW.
I’ve tried most of the suggestions on the net, not sure if you have any further suggestions on how to get the unit to focus
Are you able to tell me whether the unit is suitable on refractors someone told me that they’re not
I would appreciate your feedback and please don’t take this has a whinge just stating the facts"
Waiting for the weather to fine up to give it another try
Ayone have any thoughts or would like a cheap OAG
Regards
Jim 