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Re: Visit to Freiberg
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2005 May 21, 07:19 -0400
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2005 May 21, 07:19 -0400
Alex, Thank you for the interesting report. I visited the C.Plath factory in Germany quite a few years ago but they were already on the ropes by then. Still, it was an interesting tour. What did they do to your sextant to fix the backlash problem? Robert Alex wrote (clipped): > As I said they tested my SNO. The arc error I worried about > turned out to be small (4" for most of the arc). What they found > instead was a substantial backlash which can explain the poor results > in star distances I reported earlier to the list. > They adjusted the backlash. I payed 56 Euros for the whole > procedure, and they issued a certificate and corrected some > minor fault in one of my scopes.
