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Re: Cleaning Sextants
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Aug 8, 12:45 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Aug 8, 12:45 +1000
From: Joel Jacobs
Bauer goes so far as
suggesting placing the sextant in a bucket of fresh water if it
was splashed with seawater. That's a measure that sounds pretty extreme.
In what way is it more extreme than:
> > The prevention is
to rinse the sextant in fresh water after each
> > use, whether its
been subjected to salt spray or not.
?
