Collimation tools for a 6" F8 newtonian?

[crepitis]

Hi, I recently picked up an Orion Skyquest Intelliscope off E-bay, (thanks to a Lounge tip-off !)

and have pottering around with it , time permitting, cleaning it up, washing the mirror etc.

so far so good, but the collimation is way out and I was wondering if anyone could reccomend

a decent collimating tool for a 1.25" focusser, the simpler the better.

I have a set of Jim Fly collimating tools for my 10" Dob (which I have persevered with on the 10" with varying degrees of success ) but I have no 1.25" tools.

Any reccomendations for a cheap(ish) simple collimating device?

Cheers, Bob.

[GordonCopestake]

A 35mm film canister with a pine hole in the bottom has had great use in the past. More upmarket is a laser colimator. But the best way is a startest at high magnification. There are lots of resources on this forum if you search for collimation

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I use a laser collimation doodah works fine for me.

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

A pine hole? I obviously intended to type a pin hole but my fingers rebelled

[fmeireso]

I use a cheshire eyepiece. Works fine for me, but it has a drawback, you cannot use it in the dark...

[GazOC]

see my ad in members buy'n'sell section....£20 for a 1.25" collimating EP

[justin138]

I fiddled for ever with the 35mm canister, gave up and bought a laser collimator, 2 mins and it was done!

If you're anywhere near Colchester/Maldon part of the world, you're welcome to borrow it!

Regards

Justin

[orion f6.3]

over the years i`ve used all sorts for ways. now i visualy check

the secondary, adjust if needed then star test at 300x mag on polaris for a finall tweek 

[The Warthog]

A Cheshire collimator is easy to use, cheaper, and more accurate than a laser collimator. I do a check on my scope every couple of weeks, and any time I've travelled with it.

[crepitis]

Thanks for the help guys.

Im sure that I have a laser collimator somewhere in the house, (E-Bay purchase a couple of years ago !)

but Im damned if I can remember where it is!!.

I may purchase a cheshire eyepiece and try that.

The saving grace is that ( Im led to believe) the f8 scope should require collimating a lot less frequently than my f5 scope.

Cheers, Bob.

[crepitis]

Gaz, is that £20 including delivery?

And do you take Paypal?

Cheers, Bob.