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Re: on washing sextants
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 08:47 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 08:47 +1000
> Joel Jacobs wrote: > > > The prevention is to rinse the sextant in fresh water after each use, > > whether its been subjected to salt spray or not. Which means total immersion, or washing under a stream of water? I guess that it then becomes very important to totally dry the instrument, or moisture finding its way and lurking behind the mirrors, and elsewhere, will cause more damage than the salt spray?
