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Re: Beginner again
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Sep 17, 03:40 -0400
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Sep 17, 03:40 -0400
Gordon Talge wrote: >The numbers and lines are not painted. They >are the same gray color as the rest of the sextant. So >you have to hold it just at the right angle in the sun light >to read it. > > Ah so. On mine, the graduation and the numbers are painted black. But then I think I payed 10 dollars more for it than you! >No modern sextant that I know of >is venier. > No modern sextant that I have ever seen does not have a vernier on the drum. Check out the Astra, Freiberger or newer models from Plath. > It also slide around. The arm doesn't have >a lock or worm screw to hold the settings. > > > True, this can happen. There is supposed to be enough friction to hold the arm in place, but as Chuck Taylor pointed out, the manufacturing is so uneven that it is difficult to generalize what quirks a particular model of a Davis sextant might have. Herbert Prinz