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Soviet dip-meter described
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 14, 01:50 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 14, 01:50 -0400
For those interested in construction of the Soviet dipmeter, I translated the technical description. (Relevant parts of it). And Bill Morris helped me with English and technical vocabulary. The principle of working of this dipmeter differs substantially from all other dipmeters discussed on this list (Gavrishev, Blish, and older ones). In particular, the case is hermeticaly sealed, it needs no adjustment, has no wormscrew, no drum, no sector with teeth, and no vernier, but the scale reads to 0'2. The description in English can be found in the directory http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/Navigation/N5/ description.pdf Illustrating drawings to which the description refers are N51.pdf - N54.pdf and mysketch.pdf . Files n0.jpeg - n5.jpeg are the photos I previously posted. Alex.
