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Re: Sextant Case Foam
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2023 Sep 7, 12:21 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2023 Sep 7, 12:21 -0700
Noell Wilson wrote:
"My first try with a Davis sextant was a block of furniture foam and an electric knife. It looked like I sewed it up with a grapevine but it still works after 20 years."
You can get fair results cutting replacement foam with an electric meat carving knife. :) Inexpensive ones sell for less than $20, like this one:
https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2851130/black-decker-electric-knife.jsp.
Davis plastic sextant cases are notorious. That blue packing foam they use, soft and pliable when new, eventually becomes stiff and decays into blue plastic confetti. I've "repaired" three such cases so far with a strip of foam from Home Depot (maybe $10) and one carving knife, as above.
Frank Reed
