72 replies to this topic

[Littlegreenman]

No, I don't have a list. But please post telescope brands and models that you know as a fact that this adapter works and equally important does not work. It should be a useful resource.

As this is a project to create a list, please keep other discussion to a minimum. I know for some of you that's asking a lot--just look at some of my posting! 

 

 

Edited by Littlegreenman, 01 January 2022 - 12:06 AM.

[John Rose]

They do not fit Unitrons.

[Pete W]

These may help:

Chuck Hards 1.25" thread on adapters:      https://www.cloudyni...ractors/?hl=125

Bomber Bob's Japanese refractor registry: https://www.cloudyni...y#entry11550821

 

Vixen adapter Works:

• Monolux 4380 60mm (APL, Hiyoshi, SYW Yamamoto, etc.)
• Shrine Manon 60mm (APL, Hiyoshi, SYW Yamamoto, etc.)
• Mayflower 814 60mm (assume the same as above)
• Mayflower 816 (SYW Yamamoto, 80mm, F/15)
• ATCO #1253, 60mm f/15
• Swift 814 (77mm, F/13)
• Meade (Mizar) 295 (60mm),
• Meade (Mizar) 310 (80mm)
• Sears 6433 (SYW Yamamoto, 76mm f/15, no pullout draw tube)
• Orbit 2250 (SYW Yamamoto, 50mm f/20, no pullout draw tube)
• Tasco 7TE, 7TE-2

*Sorta works - Royal Astro (RAO) scopes in general, if they have a pullout draw tube:

• Sears 6339, 6339a (76mm, f/16)
• Tasco 10TE's (76mm, f/16)
• Tasco 7TE-5 (60mm, f/15) (I'm guessing here...)

* 36.4mm adapters won't thread into the 30mm diam. pull out drawtube, but the focuser tube - the one with the focuser rack - has 36.4mm threads, so the Vixen adapter will thread onto the focuser tube, but it won't come to focus without about 6-8" of extension tubes.

 

Don't work:

• Towa scopes ("circle T") lots of brands...Jason, Sears, JC Penney, etc.

Edited by Pete W, 01 January 2022 - 12:44 PM.

[DreamWeaver]

Vixen adaptor works on these telescopes.

 

~1962 Scope Orbit 2258 60mm f/20 (SYW)

1959 Soligor 60mm f/20 (RAO)

1959 Tasco 7T 304x 60mm f/15 (RAO)

1958 Space Scope 151 60mm f/15 (RAO)
???? Bushnell Sky Chief JR 60mm f/11.6 (BOL)

1956 Micronta 50mm f/10 (RAO)

1961 Swift 839 60MM f/13.5 (AMA)

Edited by DreamWeaver, 31 December 2021 - 02:54 PM.

[Kasmos]

Fits:

 

1958 Tasco 60/910mm 227 (RAO?)

1958 Bushnell Sky Chief 60/910mm (RAO?)

Swift Aerolite 859  (Carton)

Swift 839 (AMA)

Celestron (Vixen) C60 one of the few 60s that comes with one.

Kenko (60/710mm) TA-710 (Circle K)

Mizar SP-68R 68/1000mm (+ a bunch of other Mizars like those from Meade)

 

Just by seeing the size of the rack tube you can usually tell what scopes they will fit.

Generally scopes with a pull tube don't.

 

Might be easier to only list which ones it won't fit. 

 

Doesn't fit:

 

Penncrest 60/1000

Tasco 9TE

Crescent (Towa)

Any Towa (Sears, Jason, etc.) that has a focuser similar to the ones shown below

I don't think there's a single Towa that it will fit!

Edited by Kasmos, 31 December 2021 - 03:18 PM.

[DreamWeaver]

Since this thread is about adapters.  Here’s the size difference between the Vixen and Unitron adapters.  The Unitron adapter is on top.

 

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[ccwemyss]

Also fits:

 

HOC Selsi 247

HOC ATCO 1254

 

Chip W. 

[flywing1]

Mizar Kaiser 80mm f/15

[norvegicus]

Sans & Streiffe 601 60mm f=700
Selsi 247 (APL) 80mm f= 910

Edited by norvegicus, 31 December 2021 - 05:19 PM.

[DouglasPaul]

I just put out more "likes" than I have on any other thread. It could be just new years eve, but I don't think so. Following this thread.

[barbie]

I just use a hybrid diagonal on my Towa model 339 and this lets me use 1.25" eyepieces. Works splendidly!

[Defenderslideguitar]

Vixen 90mm Fluorite

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[Senex Bibax]

Fits my Polarscope 60mm x 910mm (Yamatar objective, <C.O.C.> focuser).

 

Does not fit my Sears 6339a (RAO).

[walter a]

Work on,
Tasco
Carton
Swift
Sears
Eikow

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[Garyth64]

The adapter will fit Tasco 7TE and 7TE-2 scopes, but not the 7TE-5.

 

It will fit the Swift's 838, 839, and 831.

Edited by Garyth64, 01 January 2022 - 10:46 AM.

[eric_zeiner]

Doesn't fit RAO Sears 6335, RAO Tasco 7 te-5, Swift 863

[eric_zeiner]

I also have the two adapters that Scope Stuff sells and neither of them fit what I have.

[39cross]

Doesn't fit RAO Sears 6335, RAO Tasco 7 te-5, Swift 863

Also does not fit the Sears 6339A or Asahi-Pentax 60/800.

 

It does work with the Mizar GT-80s.

Edited by 39cross, 01 January 2022 - 12:29 PM.

[DreamWeaver]

Did not work on the Sears 6333 or 6305 that I had.

Edited by DreamWeaver, 01 January 2022 - 05:11 PM.

[Linn]

They do work on the Sears RAO 90mm 6345.

[sdedalus83]

It works with:

 

Bushnell Sky Rover and other RAO/AO 50mm scopes.

Vixen 50mm finders with helical focusers

Vixen 70mm finders with push-pull drawtubes.

Takahashi Teegul-60

[Steve_M_M]

It's a bummer because just 2 years ago, these were available from Japan for $15, now $25

 

https://www.ebay.com...rsAAOSwJ6NbwZyu

[eric_zeiner]

It's a bummer because just 2 years ago, these were available from Japan for $15, now $25

 

https://www.ebay.com...rsAAOSwJ6NbwZyu

It is a bummer because I have $75.00 tied up in adapters that so far I cannot use.  I do however have a C.O.C/Monolux 60/1200 enroute that perhaps one of these adapters will work.

[GoodAsh]

Swift 831

[Kasmos]

It is a bummer because I have $75.00 tied up in adapters that so far I cannot use.  I do however have a C.O.C/Monolux 60/1200 enroute that perhaps one of these adapters will work.

If it's like other Cartons (excluding beginner models)  a Vixen should fit.

I don't remember ever seeing a 60/1200, did you mean 60/1000?