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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3544739" data-attributes="member: 25191">Clive, I need no deep breaths; I am totally on YOUR side, HERE! I am the first one to say—and have said for years that too many people get spun up over—and talk endlessly about—things they, beyond a doubt, cannot see ... except in their MINDS eye. But if you took all the unrealistic notions out of these forums, postings would shrink by 90% or more. I am eager for folks to do their own repair and stand by to help if I can. I must admit I can get a little spun up myself when a fellow tightens a hinge and calls it a repair and collimation job. But, it takes all kinds and perhaps the fellow needs the attendant attention.They are nice in that they cause people to think. When you can smell the wires burning it’s a good thing. But, as one other on a bino forum has pointed out: “Two or Three OPINIONS do not equal DATA.” :cat:Cheers,Bill</blockquote>