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It's a messy job to remove the OTA because the pivots are integral. I have an ETX70 that broke its drive mechanism and salvaged the scope. I had to cut the pivots off and clean it up but it still looks rough.
The focus control is a bit iffy. It moves the object lens back and forward and can be hard to get back together if you wind the lens too far forward and off the rod.
However the optics are reasonable for this type of simple scope. and the flip mirror works OK. The straight through position has an odd thread I had to make an adapter for it.
Pity you are so far away. You could have borrowed it to try!
Barry
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