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Re: Scope mounting on vernier sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Dec 13, 18:54 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Dec 13, 18:54 -0500
Noel, > I bought it. > It's not perfect but I have had a giant leap in respect > for those who > used these at sea with oil lamps! The words "easier to read" referring > to a micrometer sextant are a gross understatement. It will be better when you clean the silver arc. (It should have the color of silver). Rubbing it with WD-40 helped me with some old sextants. Bill Morris can give a more professional cleaning advise. On oil lamps. Celestaire has a very handy little LCD flashlight, which is good for reading the scale at night. > It's from IVER C WEILBACH & CO - Kjobenhavn. This manufacturer is familiar to me: once I handled his very similar sextant, but it had vernier permitting to read to 30". Alex.