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Re: Compass Adjustment
From: N S Gurnell
Date: 2004 Apr 29, 18:30 -0700

The name of the instrument is DEVIASCOPE. nsgurnell
--- Robert Eno  wrote:
> Is anyone aware of any formal courses (preferably in Canada) that one can
> take in order to learn how to adjust a compass using, among other tools,
> corrector magnets?  Before you mention manuals, I have lots. I am looking for
> more of a hands-on course where one is taught the rudiments, and then turned
> loose in a room or a ship full of maladjusted compasses -- under the watchful
> eye of a sage instructor -- to practice what one has been taught. Like
> astro-nav, I suspect that this too, is becoming a dying art.
>
> Robert
>
>




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