Hi Barry,
So sorry mate, I can sort of understand, but my mistake wasn't as
big a blue as yours.
My 4" Bausch and Lomb SCT never was brilliant straight out of
the case and one year I decided to clean the corrector plate.
Back then I didn't realise that correctors and mirrors were a matched pair and even needed to be re-assembled so that the corrector sat
where it was on the clock face so to speak. IE corrector at 12 o'clock and
mirror at 12 o'clock.
There usually is a dot on the corrector to show where to sit it.
Stoopid me pulled it out, cleaned it and put it back oblivious to all
this.
Consequently the star images in this scope have never been close to
what it was before......and that wasn't all that great anyway
But you must have put some fairly substantial pressure on those screws
to crack a corrector, I would think?
I'd be reluctant to tighten it any tighter than say just past finger tight?
Any tighter would surely be the same as a pinched primary under a primary
clamp?
As others have said Baz, I'd be up-front, go through insurance and get
a probably substantially depreciated payout check.
Fight them if the fob you off. Their first reply will be to sell you way short.
Don't accept that.
Best of luck Baz,
regards,
Steve B.
Fellow Foam-Dome Owner
