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Hi,
The SNO-T Russian sextant manual (in English) is available at
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/staff/gm/sno-t_sextant_instr.pdf
I received it from Mr. Rossi.
There is a link on the web page
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/staff/mitt1.htm
more than half way down the page
Gerard Mittelstaedt
McAllen, Texas
USA
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Lee Martin wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Jacobs" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Maintenance of SNO-T's Was Re: on washing sextants
>
> > Lee,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.
> >
> > You have a big leg up on the rest of us since you can "read the friendly
> > manual". I can't read Russian so I have no idea what it says. And the
> > manual I have is for a CHO-M which is made differently.
>
> Joel, Courtney,
>
> I have an English translation of the SNO-T manual. It was distributed
> amongst this group by Federico Rossi about a year ago. If you (or anybody
> else) want a copy, let me know and I will forward it on. It is a large PDF
> file, 6.5Meg, unfortunately. I don't know enough about PDF files to work out
> how to compress it in any way.......zipping it doesn't do any good. If your
> mail server will not handle attachments of 6.5Meg I can put it up on a web
> site and you can download it as a file transfer. Or post it if neccesary.
>
> Lee Martin
