collimating AstroMaster 114 I've owned my AstroMaster 114EQ for about a year now, and feel like I know my way around pretty well, but I'm only just becoming aware that collimation is recommended. The user manual has instructions on basic collimation. Does this look sufficient? Or should I invest in a celestron 94183 collimation cap, a celestron collimation eyepiece, or something fancy like an Orion LaserMate Deluxe II? The telescope itself cost less than $200 so I can't help but wonder if the fancier collimators are overkill. I've watched this longish video and one must apparently perform some disassembly on the telescope to user the laser collimator. This doesn't seem like the easy 'couple of minutes' adjustment I've seen described.

I'm also confused about the process of adjusting the secondary mirror. If anyone has good instructions about my specific model, I would greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to get it tuned up now that Mars is looking so good.
With a tube length of 46 cm and a focal length of 100 cm, probably the AstroMaster 114EQ is not a classical Newtonian but uses a fast (e.g. f/4) spherical primary mirror and a corrector lens built into the base of the focuser to reduce spherical aberration and increase the effective focal length (e.g. to f/8.8).
This is a variant of the Jones-Bird design of some custom telescopes.
There is some doubt about how well the corrector actually works in budget-priced telescopes.

Most collimation instructions (e.g. Seronik or Carlin) assume a classical Newtonian design.
Jones-Bird collimation is similar in theory but more complicated in practice.
In particular, the corrector hinders the use of a laser device.
Try a collimation cap; anything that fits a 1.25 inch focuser is fine.
You can even get decent results with a homemade one.
If you decide to invest in a Cheshire sight tube, it can be used with any Newtonian reflector.