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Another question from the peanut gallery
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Oct 16, 23:28 -0400
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Oct 16, 23:28 -0400
Thanks to all for leads on re-silvering of
mirrors.
Now another question (because questions beget more
questions):
The general consensus, both on this forum and in
navigation texts, is that front-silvered mirrors are the preferred option as
they provide superior performance to that of rear-silvered
mirrors.
I am the proud owner of a C.Plath as, I am sure, are
many other list members. In looking at my Plath, it is apparent that the mirrors
are not front silvered but are silvered on the rear. Yet C.Plath was (is) the
Rolls Royce of sextants. That they did not go the whole nine yards by
silvering their mirrors on the front surface seems incongruous to their
high status in the sextant world.
Does anyone know why they may not have chosen to go
with the front silvered mirrors?
Robert
