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A wish list to keep things in one place:

A decent Barlow to replace the plastic x3 that was included in the Powerseeker 114EQ package. The Tal x3 beckons. The Ultima x2 sounds under-powered. I got a TeleVue 2.5x Barlow (not the Powermate) from 2005mersh@ebay for £38, delivered. It is the "Mk 1" Barlow, not like the ones they currently sell.
An RA motor for the EQ1. Would it be good enough to track a planet with the ToUcam and at an effective focal length of 2700 (900x3) mm? I got the RA Economy Motor Drive from FLO for £34.85, delivered.
A nice manual focus 135mm f/2.8 camera lens with a T-mount. Or a Takumar/Zeiss with an M42? This will be used in the configuration shown by KaptainKlevtsov. Need some adapters from modernastronomy.com for this to work. And how to mount on tripod/EQ? I got a Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm@f/3.5 with M42 fitting, for £34 delivered, off htsoz@ebay.
Is it time to do an LX/SC mod on the 740K ToUcam? Or splash out on a DMK?
UHC-type nebula filter. Baader, Lumicon, Astronomik or something else?
An eyepiece mount for my Canon PowerShot compact to enable afocal photography. I got an Ultra Deluxe digital camera support (AC295) from Andrew, for £13.52, delivered.
A RemoteCapture-enabled PowerShot to do time lapse via laptop control (I can't believe that neither of the TWO PowerShots at home support it!).
Dew shields.
The new Synta electric focuser that can drive my 300P Crayford.