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Are these still available?
From: UNK
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 22:30 -0800
From: UNK
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 22:30 -0800
Anyone knows this gentleman and if these sextants (for $50) are still available? I am looking for a bubble sextant to be used on a plane. Thanks for any comments, suggestions... Jerome jc4045808447 at gmail dat com Ken Gebhart wrote: Alex and others, I agree with Robert about the MK IX being good. We used to sell them for a while. My high school aged son overhauled them without any problems. There were 2 models: an A model which had no averager, and a B model which had a large cylindrical averager sticking out the forward end. The wind-up averager is really of no use unless you are shooting from an airplane, so we just sold the A model. When these ran out, we simply lopped off the averager of a B model with a hacksaw, and voila- it became an A model We probably have 50 to 100 of these left over in a self storage unit. I would be glad to sell some of these for, say- $50 each (which is mainly for the effort of digging through them to find the decent ones). For that matter, we also have piles of A-10s, A10As and AN 5851-1s too. I probably will never do anything with them, so if someone wants to come to Wichita with a trailer, I can make you a deal on the lot. ------------------------------------------------- [Sent from archive by: jc4045808447-AT-gmail.com] -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com
