Auction telescope: Bargain or junk

[lukebl]

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone here picked up this 200mm SCT Celestron at today's auction in Leics.

I thought it looked like it might have a bit of a dent (partially hidden by the lens hood!), but thought it might be worth a punt at £90 max. It eventually went for £150.

Might be OK. Who knows?

 

[brantuk]

If the dent has affected the collimation it'll be a pig to put right. Gotta hammer out the dent and get the corrector plate and secondary mirror properly aligned. Not a task I'd care to undertake - it needs the right person with the right skills really.

[Knighty2112]

It looks quite worse off for wear to me, and quite an old version scope too, so I definitely wouldn't even have considered anything on it with all the potential problems that could be wrong with it. 

[johninderby]

Was that the only picture of it. Does it even have the corrector plate? Their description of it as a tube makes me wonder.

        John