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Re: Horizons and levels
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2003 Jul 15, 22:33 -0400
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2003 Jul 15, 22:33 -0400
Jared, Unless you can get a hold of an old C.Plath with the adjustable bubble, don't waste your money on the expensive "professional" bubble attachments. You are better off spending the $49.00 to get the practice level which, I suspect, is just as accurate as the more expensive bubble attachments (except for the aforementioned C.Plath attachment). I believe that Mr. Gebhart came into a few dozen of the old C.Plath versions and offers them in his catalogue. My advice is to snap one up if you can. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Sherman"To: Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Horizons and levels > Is Ken G. from Celestaire with us right now? > > I ask because they have http://www.celestaire.com/catalog/products/0511.html a "practice bubble level" attachment for $49 which is only stated to give a final observation within 2 minutes of accuracy. > > That would set "good enough" (or not ) and cheap enough (or not) at $49 for a compact device that will allow 2 minutes of accuracy. > > Better models with more respected names seem to range from $700 to $1800...with no accuracy mentioned. > >