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Sextant repair
From: Philip Lange
Date: 2006 Mar 21, 14:47 -0500

Thanks for the input.

FYI, Robert E. White Instruments can not do repairs. Their technician is no longer there and they have not found a replacement. The parts they have for Plath sextants seems to be limited to a few large sub assemblies and does not include screws, circlips and the like.

The screw is original. I buggered the tapped hole. Ignorance. I will put the screw in my wallet and make finding its proper size a quest. With so many "close but no cigar" threads out there I want to make sure of its size before proceeding. I have read that standards changed around the time (c 1968) this instrument was crafted. I will find a nut that fits, then a tap that fits the nut. Or find someone that has a thread gage. Who knows. I may even find a larger close match, get a new screw and re-tap the hole. So many possibilities.

Thanks again.
Philip

Philip & Marilyn Lange
AE4OV & KD4JRC,
S/V ORYOKI
Witness 35 Catamaran
http://www.oryoki.net

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