Blacked out the tension knobs? I'm confused, are we talking about the same site? The image I saw just then is
this (yes that's a picture of a 10" Dob). What did you see?
When I bought the scope a couple of years ago it looked very much like that, except the size of course, and the laminate on the rocker box was black, not white. What does yours look like?
Cheers
Steffen.