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Re: A-10 Sextant Restoration
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Jun 27, 22:37 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Jun 27, 22:37 -0700
No, as I posted long ago, you must use grease due to the high pressure on the tapered bearing surface. See the attached manual. Bill Morris' book, The Naked Nautical Sextant, is in accord, see page 55. gl --- On Wed, 6/26/13, Mike Cino <tnnrec@aol.com> wrote:
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