NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
1850s Metal Sextant - Hard to read the scales
From: Graham England
Date: 2016 Jul 26, 10:21 -0700
From: Graham England
Date: 2016 Jul 26, 10:21 -0700
My Aunt gave me my Uncles 1850s vintage sextant.
It all works but it is very hard to read the scales.
Both scales are silver and I cleaned them very lightly with a drop of oil.
The vernier scale (the one on the index swing arm) looks better but the main arc scale is still very light.
It there some way to make the marking on these scales easier to read?
There is also a window for a small piece glass.
The glass is missing.
What is the purpose of the glass?
Thanks
