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Old 06-08-2009, 12:41 PM
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Thumbs up Installed Bobs Knobs

I installed Bobs Knobs the other day, a recent birthday present from a friend.

After foolishly following the instructions and finding I couldn't work out how in the world to reach collimation once they were all in, I followed my instinct on how to install them and got it working nicely.

After having put all the Meade screws back in, and collimated the scope roughly, I then replaced one screw at a time and each time collimated the secondary, pointing at star. By doing this I didn't completely lose all reference to where a good alignment should be.

Will be interesting to see how useful they are and that they hold collimation as well as the Meade screws. I didn't have a particular problem with using the allen key but these are bound to be easier.

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Old 06-08-2009, 03:47 PM
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Trust me Roger, they'll make a world of difference!!
I swapped the secondary screws on my 12"LB over 3 years ago, with knobs from Astronomy Shoppe
What was a chore is now a delight.
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:27 PM
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once your use to them there easy no risk of allen key falling onto corrector plate
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