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Re: Freiberger sextant
From: Roger Harris
Date: 2015 Jan 19, 06:05 -0800
From: Roger Harris
Date: 2015 Jan 19, 06:05 -0800
Jeremy and others may be interested to learn that French sextant retailer NavAstro has recently begun offering an OEM part that replaces the standard Freiberger micrometre with a vernier version reading to 0.2'. It costs 60 Euros VAT included; sales to non-EC countries would be somewhat less.
Photos and description (in French) are at http://navastro.fr/index.html?c103.html.