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Re: A Good Sextant Buy
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2004 Mar 25, 08:45 -0500
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2004 Mar 25, 08:45 -0500
I owned a Frieberger sextant some years ago. Nice instrument but there is one feature about it that I found to be a significant problem. The release mechanism is constructed such that aluminium pivots on aluminium. After a while, the whole mechanism bids up and then you have to take the bloody thing apart to unstick it. I paid $400.00 Cdn for mine but given a choice, I don't think I would buy one again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Williams"To: Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: Re: A GOOD SEXTANT BUY > Could you comment, tho, on the other stuff he has for > sale - every sextant is "calibrated" even so-called > "lifeboat" sextants for 50 bucks? Difficult to know > which statements to trust with such a range of goods on > offer from one person..Keith Williams > >