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Re: Visit to Freiberg
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 May 25, 02:42 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 May 25, 02:42 -0500
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Bill wrote: > Did they tell you how large the backlash error was before correction? If > so, what was it? No they did not, and they did not actually measure it. As I said, the master just shaked the sextant arm with his hand, and then started to rotate this "prohibited screw" explaining through the translator that this adjustment has to be made because the connection between the arm and the arc is not rigid enough. He did not use the word "backlash" and the translator did not know this English term. Unfortunately the weather in Kiel is still cloudy and I cannot test the sextant after the adjustment. A
