It read;
"For sale, celestron telescope 114x900mm $25.00"
Last time I investigated an ad like this, it was a Tasco Luminova, but I was able to use the EQ mount for my 7x50s...cool!
This time, I called the guy (right down the street), and he said that some other guy looked through it, couldn't see anything, and left. He also said it came with one eyepiece.
I told a friend at work about it, as he wanted a bigger telescope than his 70mm refractor. I told him that it might be junk, but he gambled the $25.00 anyway.
Yesterday, I drove the 3 miles to pick it up. The first thing I saw, to my delight, were a set of wooden tripod legs!(do you know where this is going?)
Yup, a C 4.5, Made in Japan by Vixen, on a Polaris eq!
It had light rust on some of the knobs, and the mirrors were filthy, but everything moved freely, only thing missing was the finderscope, though the stalk was still there. The secondary was out of alignment (I could adjust the screws with my fingers!) which scared the last buyer off!
BTW, the single eyepiece included turned out to be a celestron 20mm japan kellner, sitting on an Ultima Barlow!
I took it home, it cleaned up nicely (as did the eyepieces), only one small spec of bad coating on the primary.
Saturn was still sharp at 150x, but this telescope takes alot of back focus! Some of my eyepieces wont come to focus,including the 20mm Kellner, which explains the barlow!
My friend will be thrilled! The last reflector he bought was at costco, and he gave it away after fiddling with it (unsucessfully) for a month!
Keep watching "Bargain websight"!
Chris