Accomplishing a Small Task

I had been complaining about an overly short dovetail bar on one of my telescopes so I finally tackled that problem this morning.  I simply bolted a longer dovetail bar to the overly short dovetail bar.  

When I have a lot of weight on the back end of this telescope (ie, diagonal, heavy eyepiece, camera, etc), I run out of dovetail length to move the telescope forward enough in the mount's saddle to properly balance the telescope.  Now, with this longer dovetail bar, I should have no problems with balance.  

I still need to figure out why the views are terrible through this particular little scope but that is a different problem for a different day when I can get outside with this telescope to refine the collimation.  If refining the collimation does not help, I'll need to completely disassemble the telescope to see if I can spot any problems but I'd prefer to avoid that.  If I do have to disassemble the whole scope and I still can't spot any problems, then the cause would likely be a poorly configured (shaped) mirror.  If it is a mirror problem, the scope is destined for the trash bin.  

In the meantime, I resolved one problem so that is good!