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Re: SNOT design. Was: Why is a sextant like it is?
From: Joel Jacobs
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 21:47 +0000
From: Joel Jacobs
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 21:47 +0000
Alex,
Please send me a picture of your sextant or better yet post it on a website where everyone can see it. I will reserve my comments until then.
Joel Jacobs
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-------------- Original message from Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU>: --------------
> Dear Chuck:
>
> >Add to
> >that if the handle were on the opposite side as now,
> >the arm would have to
> >be in the back between the legs.
> >Otherwise the handle would have to span the
> >entire front to avoid interfering with the arm.
> >This would add weight to the sextant.
>
> This message made me inspect my SNO-T again,
> and I found an interesting thing.
> Its design is very different from the conventional one.
> You can see this in many web photographs on e-bay.
>
> In most traditional sextants, the arm moves
> "in front of" or "above" the frame.
> In SNO-T (and Freiberger) it moves "inside" the frame.
> The frame i! s of "two layer" construction.
> And the arm moves between these two layers.
>
> This is very different from the C.Plath-type
> (Tamaya, Astra, SNO-M) and British
> sextants I know.
>
> Alex.
