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Re: SNO-T for export ?
From: Bruce Cutting
Date: 2019 May 03, 11:40 -0600
From: Bruce Cutting
Date: 2019 May 03, 11:40 -0600
Apparently yes. I have a SNO-T labeled Gilly and Gilly (1985 I believe) - One interesting difference is that id has a vernier on the micrometer (which i like very much). Does your's also have the vernier? Cheers! Bruce Quoting Bruno Meier: > Hello everyone, > I recently purchased an 1987 SNO-T sextant from India. It is in good > condition, however I had the bad surprise to discover that several > important screws and the mirror calibration tool were missing while > I was told by the seller that the sextant was in perfect usable > condition... Anyway, this issue should be solved soon thanks to the > very kind assistance of Bill Morris (note: his book about the repair > and maintenance of SNO-T is an absolute "must have" for any owner of > these truely remarkable sextants. His other book "The Nautical > Sextant" is also a "must have" in my opinion). > Besides of the missing bits and pieces, I also discovered that my > sextant's inventory list in the lid of the case, unlike all SNO-T I > did see until then, was not written in Russian but in perfect > English ! See picture attached. It seems perfectly genuine and > "ex-factory", and leads me to believe that, at a certain stage in > USSR's history, some SNO-T's were made for export. Does anyone knows > more about this ? I would love to learn more about the history of > this sextant. > Cheers > Bruno > > [plain text auto-generated] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: http://fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Attached File: http://fer3.com/arc/imgx/IMG_3446.JPG > > > : > http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/SNOT-for-export-BrunoMeier-may-2019-g44882