![]() ![]() As it was, it was a piece of cake and left me just plain thrilled! It is quite a view to be looking at the space station with all the stars whizzing by in the background. I am positive that without the red-dot I would have been very frustrated and likely would have completely failed to track the space station. I did have to keep making minor adjustments to keep it centered and twice I lost it by hitting left when I should have hit right but each time I jumped away from the eyepiece and successfully reaquired by using the red-dot sight. When it did appear I looked through (and around with my other eye) the red-dot sight and started the scope tracking when they came together (within a second or two of the autostars predicted time).Still looking through the red-dot, I fine tuned the scopes tracking and I then jumped onto the eyepiece (18mm SWA) and there it was nicely in the field of view. I was able to look for the space station to appear with my head up. I obtained current ephemeredes from (meade's data was out of date) and, much to my surprise it all worked. Passage in our area that night only lasted two minutes. Another nicety is that when I am looking through the sight with my left eye, my right eye is in the clear and able to focus on the same piece of sky.How did it work out? I chose my first test to be my first attempt to acquire a satellite (the space station in fact). The red dot also shoots below the right side of my camera (mounted on a JMI piggyback mount) and so it is still usable with the camera mounted. I'm left eyed so I have adjusted the stock finder as far back as it will go and can easily look through the stock finder, the scope eyepiece and the red-dot sight. A less impatient person than I will do those mods prior to hot gluing the sight to the scope (as I have now prohibited myself from normal disassembly). I have not yet cleaned the coating off the lens (I'm going to try muriatic acid) nor put in a potentiometer for brightness adjust (I'm going to try a miniature 10k when I find one). ![]() It was easy to hold it at the desired angle where I wanted it but I was sure to get the alignment right as I put it in. I took the metal mounting flanges off the sight and just hot-glued the sight to the scope right-side-down. You have to desolder a wire, cut a little glue and straighten a little bent metal on the switch to get it out.I used a 'higher tech' approach to mount it on the scope than some other product reviewers as I couldn't figure out a way to get rubber bands to work. Moving the switch was also no big deal if you don't mind cutting a new switch hole (I used a dremel tool with a twist drill bit and cleaned it up with an exacto). Disassembly is straight forward (see picture) as is reassembly of the windage adjustment 'on the other side'. I moved the switch and the 'windage' adjustment from the right side to the left side of the sight. Upon getting it home I determined that to mount it in the appropriate location (see picture) I would have to make some minor modifications to it. It has a significantly larger window than the daisy. The previously reviewed Daisy finder was on sale for $10 dollars but, for an item such as this, I figured 'why go cheap' and spent $13 instead on a crossman 'wide angle' sight. The details follow: After reading about the assorted finder solutions on the Mighty ETX site and being very frustrated with the lack of a useful finder for non-automatic operation with my ETX-125, I headed off to the local quality finder store (aka Kmart) to look at gun scopes and red-dot finders. Users Who Have Read This Thread (Total: 2) A Better Finder Attributes 6 21stSteve Stearns reports: 'I just installed a $13 Crossman red-dot sight on my ETX-125 and I am thrilled with the results. ![]()
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