Well I'm happy to report the mods did work a treat. I got the scope out today and had a quick peek at Jupiter early evening. It was just awesome. Pin point moons, snapped into focus. I could clearly make up the bands and also some of the cloudy wisps. I called the kids and they went wow! So test passed with flying colors.
The collimation worked surprisingly well. I got the scope on the bench without the corrector or the secondary. Registered it to the Hotech cross laser and tweaked the primary tilt until I aligned both the cross reflected from the primary with the cross reflected by the small mirror in the back focus. Took a few iterations to get it done and close in the sweet spot. Once it was aligned I locked the primary and placed the corrector back in then proceeded with the secondary collimation which was nearly spot on out of the box as everything was already aligned.
Then took the scope out and the views were splendid. Can't wait to stick a camera in there now. Big relief it all worked out so well in the end too.
