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Re: on washing sextants

From: Peter Fogg (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 18:47:36 EDT

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    > Joel Jacobs wrote:
    >
    > > The prevention is to rinse the sextant in fresh water after each use,
    > > whether its been subjected to salt spray or not.

    Which means total immersion, or washing under a stream of water? I guess that it then becomes very
    important to totally dry the instrument, or moisture finding its way and lurking behind the mirrors, and
    elsewhere, will cause more damage than the salt spray?


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