The exhortations...
I can't use a solid refractor. If it's solid, how might one be expected to see through it?
The highest power, stated twice on the box, 225x, just so happens to be the exact same magnification that I was able to achieve with one of my 70mm f/12.9 achromats, and far more easily I might add.
Very well, I will hold them to that.
The kit came rather well-equipped, albeit with refuse...
But after all, in the end, I was after just the telescope itself...
I find my efforts, when working on astronomy equipment, most rewarding in the renovation of entry-level telescopic OTAs from overseas, those mass-produced. My goal has always been to make them the very best that they can possibly be. Indeed, fortune has been on my side in that the vast majority of the objectives of these telescopes have proved to be, at least, of very good quality. I, personally, cannot re-figure mirrors, let alone lenses, therefore I am somewhat dependent, but I can do practically anything and everything else associated therewith, from fore, to aft.