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Re: Gyro sextant
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Jan 27, 03:41 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Jan 27, 03:41 -0800
One for the structural engineers. Re my last, if there is no actual skidding in the cup by the gyro pivot, should I be talking about ‘friction’, or should I be simply saying the reaction is no longer vertical, or worse still call the sideways component ‘stiction’. DaveP