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SNO-T sextants manuel - big PDF file
From: Gerard Mittelstaedt
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 22:23 -0500
From: Gerard Mittelstaedt
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 22:23 -0500
Hi, The SNO-T Russian sextant manual (in English) is available at http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/staff/gm/sno-t_sextant_instr.pdf I received it from Mr. Rossi. There is a link on the web page http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/staff/mitt1.htm more than half way down the page Gerard Mittelstaedt mitt@hiline.net McAllen, Texas USA =============================================== Lee Martin wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joel Jacobs"> To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: Maintenance of SNO-T's Was Re: on washing sextants > > > Lee, > > > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > You have a big leg up on the rest of us since you can "read the friendly > > manual". I can't read Russian so I have no idea what it says. And the > > manual I have is for a SNO-M which is made differently. > > Joel, Courtney, > > I have an English translation of the SNO-T manual. It was distributed > amongst this group by Federico Rossi about a year ago. If you (or anybody > else) want a copy, let me know and I will forward it on. It is a large PDF > file, 6.5Meg, unfortunately. I don't know enough about PDF files to work out > how to compress it in any way.......zipping it doesn't do any good. If your > mail server will not handle attachments of 6.5Meg I can put it up on a web > site and you can download it as a file transfer. Or post it if neccesary. > > Lee Martin