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Re: Soviet Sextants!
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2004 Jul 31, 12:19 -0500
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2004 Jul 31, 12:19 -0500
Joel, What is the situation regarding service/repair of the CHO sextants ? If unavailable, I'd guess the Freiberger, though real high, is at least available. Cordially, Courtney Joel Jacobs wrote: > Good call Renee, > > The Alexey I was speaking of is at this site. www.antiques-marine.com > > Yuri as below, as you've read has a reputation of faithful dealing, but I > 've no personal experience with him. > > Rene, the parts of the Freiberger and SNO-T are not interchangeable. The > cost of Freiberger parts in this country is quite high. Check with Claussen > Instruments. The owner, Wayne handles sextants personally. > > IMO, a good clean SNO-T should sell for close to $375-$400.00 with a 4 x 40 > or 3.5 x 40 scope in the U.S. They're worth less than half that with a 7 x > scope. If it has two scopes don't add much for the high powered one. So, you > really need to know the scope situation before you can evaluate the > attractiveness of a Russian sextant. And then don't forget the mirrors. > Sextant mirrors are horrendously expensive. > > BTW, Mauri had a NEW SNO-T on his site for close to $400.00 which is quite > high considering the shipping. Everyone knows that in the Cyrillic alphabet > that S and T are the same? > > A good clean Freiberger should bring from $375-$450, so I personally don't > see much difference between them price wise. > > Sextants that are in use, barring being dropped, shouldn't require much if > any service. The most that needs be done would be to replace mirrors or > maybe fix the illumination on C. Plaths which is a weak point. You can > always have a Plath or Tamaya mirror notched to replace a SNO-T horizon > mirror. > > Joel Jacobs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Renee Mattie"> To: > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:57 AM > Subject: Re: Soviet Sextants! > > > >>From: Renee Mattie [mailto:reneemattie@hotmail.com] >>Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 9:59 AM >>To: 'Navigation Mailing List' >>Subject: RE: [NAV-L] Soviet Sextants! >> >>Joel Jacobs said: >> >>>I am pasting a representative copy of one of my Russian ebay sextant >>> >>listings which >> >>>discusses the advantages of the Russian SNO-T sextant in particular, >>>and >>> >>in general. If >> >>>the seller is "ALEXEY" and I think it is, I have dealt with him a >>>couple >>> >>of times, and >> >>>he is totally trustworthy. >>> >>The seller gives contact information of: >>Yuri Margorsky: maur@online.kharkiv.com >> >>I don't know if he has any relation to the Alexey you speak of. >> >>I have a question though: >> >>Robert Gainer said: >> >>>Because you can buy the Freiberger for within a few dollars of the >>>Soviet >>> >>one, what are >> >>>you gaining? It's easier to get parts or have the Freiberger serviced >>>and >>> >>I would feel > more comfortable with it, if for that reason and nothing >>else. >> >>I know the SNO-T is based closely on the Freiberger. Can it not use the >>same parts? >>Would it be more difficult to get parts and services for the SNO-T? >>In general, the Freiberger price of a Freiberger on Ebay is at least 20% >>higher than that for a SNO-T. I am surprised to see maurnavy selling one >>for LESS than the SNO-T. The pictured Freibuger looks perfect (though >> > there > >>are no closeups of any of the parts). The only visible difference is that >>it has only one scope. >> >>Renee >> > -- s/v Mutiny Rhodes Bounty II lying Oriental, NC WDB5619