NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Mar 28, 12:01 -0700
If you can't find Douglas Denny's friendly model engineer, contact me off list with your address (Reply-to-Author) and I'll make you one from brass for free.
By the way, it's a locking nut, not an adjusting nut. Slacken the nut just a little, adjust with the central screw and re-tighten the nut, not much more than finger tight. Re-check setting.
It's not such a sin to break the nut. From memory, they were made from Al alloy and prone to crack at the sharp corner of the slot
Your sextant is a SNO-T in Engish transliteration, Sextan Navigacionnyi s Osvetitelem - T, or tropicalised sextant for navigation with illumination.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
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