Unable to Remove Meade #64ST T-Adapter

[CapeTown]

I bought my first telescope the Meade ETX 60 the backpack edition.

I have a slight problem with it.

I bought the camera adapter ring and the t-mount ring for my canon camera.

All worked 100% until I wanted to remove it.

The problem is both ring screw on clock wise.

The problem that I have is I was able to unscrew the t-mount for the cannon camera but the camera adapter ring that you screw on first seems to be stuck.

Due to the threading on the outside and the small size of the adapter there is no place to grip it to unscrew it.

I do not want to use a tool as I do not want to damage the thread on the outside of the ring.

I noticed there is two square notches on the ring I think one can use some kind of tool to fit in there to unscrew it.

Do you perhaps know what this tool is called or where I could get it, or perhaps anything I could try to unscrew the camera adapter at the back of the telescope photo port.

Your help will be much appreciated.


Lastly will it be a problem if I can not get it off and leave it on there and leave the photo port open, does it have to be closed for the telescope to work correctly?

[roverich]

Mabey you could use a piece of leather to grip the threads with ... Or a piece of rubber like a chunk of innertube ....Something to grip with ...You dont want to leave the port open ..Dirt is a bad thing as well as stray light ....