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Re: Keuffel Esser sextant horizon glass repair issue.
From: Art Leung
Date: 2025 May 28, 10:42 -0700
From: Art Leung
Date: 2025 May 28, 10:42 -0700
Joe, I have etched my own horizon mirrors from commercially available mirror stock. Bill Morris has an article on how to do this: New Sextant Mirrors for Old | The Nautical Sextant
I was able to take things a bit further and etch some windows into the somewhat more complex mirrors used in the Tamiya bubble sextant (Coutinho pattern) from WW-II with good success using the above article as a guide. (Bill has an article (which has a nice picture of the horizon mirror) on the this type of Tamiya as well: A Coutinho-Pattern Bubble Sextant | The Nautical Sextant)
