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I agree, I had very good results with my Ebbco for years before I got my
Tamaya.

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>
> Bill admits that "I have no first-hand experience with plastic sextants",
> yet goes on to add "but from what I have read IE appears to vary to much
> more within a batch [of observations], or from batch to batch, than
> does a
> metal sextant.". In that, he is simply relating popular prejudice against
> the plastic sextant in general. In the hands of a careful user,
> there's no
> reason at all for index error to get in the way of a good observation, to
> the rather lower standards of accuracy that one accepts with a plastic
> instrument.
>
> I should add that, just like Bill, I have no experience with the Davis
> model that Asbjorn was using, but Bill's comments tarred all plastic
> sextants with the same brush; and unfairly so, in my view.
>
> George.
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