Well, I've finally started putting together the 127 mm wide field refractor with the lens from Surplus Shed. After reading some posts in the refractor forum about collimating a refractor lens, I decided to try to make a collimatable lens system, as well as a collimatable focusser.
I put the whole thing together, and with a couple of hose clamps, mounted the scope on my SVP EQ mount.
Found Saturn with a 30 mm 2 inch eyepiece, and although small, it was very sharp. Stars had a bit of coma,( when slightly out of focus) but with a little more tweaking of the collimation, I'm confident it'll improve.
Anyway, here are some photos of what I've done so far.
Here's the collimatable lens.
-------------------- 14 inch LX200 GPS
Celestron 114 GT
10 inch ATM Truss
Skywatcher 102 refractor,70 refractor
Skywatcher EQ6 with SS2K
Orion 102 mak
127mm ATM refractor
Orion 8 in f/5 newt
EQ 2,EQ 1
SkyMaster 15X70 binoculars
and a bunch of other assorted equipment