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Re: SNOT design. Was: Why is a sextant like it is?
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 17:41 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 17:41 -0500
Dear Joel, I don't have a digital camera, but you can see VERY good pictures of EXACTLY the same sextant on http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=37971&item=3762360200&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW and http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=60368&item=3762108473&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW What Russian e-bay traders really do very well is photographs:-) Alex. On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Yourname Here wrote: > Alex, > > Please send me a picture of your sextant or better yet post it on a website where everyone can see it. I will reserve my comments until then. > > Joel Jacobs > -- > Visit our website > http://www.landandseacollection.com > > > > > -------------- Original message from Alexandre Eremenko: -------------- > > > > Dear Chuck: > > > > >Add to > > >that if the handle were on the opposite side as now, > > >the arm would have to > > >be in the back between the legs. > > >Otherwise the handle would have to span the > > >entire front to avoid interfering with the arm. > > >This would add weight to the sextant. > > > > This message made me inspect my SNO-T again, > > and I found an interesting thing. > > Its design is very different from the conventional one. > > You can see this in many web photographs on e-bay. > > > > In most traditional sextants, the arm moves > > "in front of" or "above" the frame. > > In SNO-T (and Freiberger) it moves "inside" the frame. > > The frame is of "two layer" construction. > > And the arm moves between these two layers. > > > > This is very different from the C.Plath-type > > (Tamaya, Astra, SNO-M) and British > > sextants I know. > > > > Alex.