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Re: Toizaki Sextant
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2009 Nov 18, 18:00 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2009 Nov 18, 18:00 -0800
Toizaki was a Japanese manufacturer apparently operating in the 1970s. There were quite a few Japanese companies which produced sextants from Tamaya designs and parts in this period. I think of their sextants as "Tamaya-alikes". Just guessing --this *may* have been yet another of those. Did Tamaya manufacture a smaller sextant at that time? In my personal experience, sextants from these various Tamaya-alike companies are excellent but often imperfect in some way. For example, I used to have a sextant by "MAC" which was clearly Tamaya-derived and excellent in most respects, but it had one shade which was useless, too dark even for the brightest Sun and bad glass, too. This didn't detract from the usefulness of the instrument really, but it made me wonder whether there might be something else "wrong" with it when I first got it. -FER -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com