The Nautical Sextant

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A10 vapour pressure bubble chambers, Sealing

Admiralty pattern vernier sextant

Admiralty pattern micrometer sextant

AN 5851-1 bubble sextant averager., Gummed-up

AN 5851-1. Jammed shades carrousel

Battered Observator sextant, A

 Battery Handle Structure, C Plath

 Box Sextant, A

Broken legs

 Bubble Horizon Attachment, C Plath

Bubble illumination of Mk V and AN 5851 bubble sextants

Bubble Sextant Restoration Manual, A12

 Bubble Sextant Restoration Manuals, A10 and Mark IX series

bubble sextants, Aircraft

Bubble sextant, Hughes Marine 

 Bubble Horizon, A Nautical Sextant

 Byrd Aircraft Sextant, Update on

Byrd Sextant Restored, A

Carl Plath’s Earliest Sextant

C Plath Sextant Lives Again

 C. Plath Drei Kreis sextant, Restoring a

 C. Plath Vernier Sextant, A Fine

C Plath Yachting Sextant

C18 sextant named J Watkins

C19 sextant restoration

C Plath Sun Compass

Carl Plath micrometer sextant

 Carl Plath Sextants, Eighty Years of

circular sextant mirrors, Making

Compass, a C Plath sun

Compass, an improvised sun

Damaged Rising Piece, A

 Dip Meter, A Russian Naval

 Dip Meter, An Improvised

Distance Meter, A Stuart

Distance Meter, Fleuriais’ Marine

Drowned Husun Three Circle Sextant, A

Ebony quadrant, restoring a

Errors, Backlash and Micrometer

Faking it., Is it a SNO-M or is it a C Plath?

 Filotecnica Salmoiraghi of Milan, A Fine Sextant by

Freiberger Drum Sextant lighting unit

Freiberger Drum Sextant (Trommelsextant)

Freiberger Skalen Sextant

Freiberger Yacht sextant

A French Hydrographic Sextant

Half-size Sextant by Hughes and Son, A

Half-size Sextant by Lebvre-Poulin, A

Heath and Company’s best vernier sextant

Heath Curve-bar sextant compared with Plath

Heath Vernier Sextant Restored

Hughes Marine Bubble Sextant

Hungarian sextant via Bulgaria, An

Hydrographical sextant, a French

Ilon Industries Mark III sextant

Jesse Ramsden and his Dividing Engine

 Keystone Sextant Case, Making a

 LEDs 1: miniature screw bases., Adapting to

LEDs 2: Plath bubble horizon unit, Adapting to

Lefebvre-Poulin, a Half sized sextant by

left-handed sextant, Unusual

Legs, broken

Mark V / AN5851 sextant bubble chambers, Refilling

 Markk V/ AN5851 sextant bubble chamber, Overhaul of

mirrors, How flat are sextant ?

 monocular mounting, Making a sextant

Observator Classic sextant, restoring a

Observator Mark 4 sextant

 Prismatic Monocular, Making a

 Quadrant Restored, An Early C19 Ebony

Quadrant Restored, an old wooden          June 2018

 Scale Lighting Systems, Later Tamaya

Sextant ‘scopes for myopes

Sextant Mirrors, New  for Old

Sextant Calibrator, A

Sextant Frame, Evolution of the

sextant shades, Polarising

Sextant, 210 years on,

Shackman sextant and a link to Jesse Ramsden

 Shades-adjusting Tool, Making a

Simex Sextant(s

Skalensextant, Inside the

SNO-T Mirror Bracket Repair

 SOLD KM2 Bubble Sextant

Sounding Sextants 1

Sounding sextants 2

Sounding sextants 3

Spanish Vernier Sextant, A Late

Spencer, Browning and Co sextant

Sun compass, a C Plath

Sun compass, an improvised

switch overhaul, Tamaya

Tamaya Collimation Blunder

The Case of the Broken Screw

Troughton and Simms Surveying Sextant

Turn-of-the-century French Sextant

US Maritime Commission Sextant, A

USN BuShips Mark II sextant: some design oddities

USSR SNO-M sextant, The

USSR SNO-T sextant, The

 Vernier Sextant, British Admiralty

Watkins, J, A C18 sextant named

Which lubricant?

Worm with wrong thread angle?

Worm Turns, A