Dear fellow dialists
Laurel Browning has asked me to inform the list that she has ordered
a new run of castings for the sundial. Orders received by December 1st
will now be shipped by Christmas. She also asked me to advise
interested persons that she is not able to accept payment by credit
card
Hi Dave
The gnomon for the Schmoyer dial is asymmetric East-to-West in the
same way that the analemma is. When the gnomon is inverted, East
and West are interchanged but they are on the equatorial crescent also.
Since the time scale is flipped along with the East-West flip of the
gnomon, the inv
Dear Anton
Regarding the use of the Schmoyer sundial in the Southern hemisphere:
There are no markings cast-in on the sundial castings except for the
name of Richard L. Schmoyer on the backside of the gnomon and a motto
around the perimeter of the casting for the large base of the dial.
The mark
Hello John
Please refer to my posted reply to D. Anton Reynecke, this date. If you
have any other questions please feel free to contact me by private email.
At 08:32 AM 10/08/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello David/Laurel,
>
>I am very interested in a Schmoyer sundial and luckily enough my
>birthday
Dear Anton
The amount of finishing of the parts for the Schmoyer sundial depends
entirely on the desired result. One could simply sand off any rough edges
leaving the rough surface of the parts as-cast. This would leave only the
tasks of carefully drilling the required holes and placing the time
Hello Martha
The sundial is a set of arcs with an outer diameter of 15 inches.
With the stand provided, it stands about 19 inches tall.
At 10:37 PM 10/06/99, you wrote:
>Mr. David:
>
>I live in México and I will love to have an Schomyer sundial.
>Could you tell me the sundial dimension?
Dear dialist friends
After nearly twenty years, the Schmoyer sundial is available again!
The sundial kit includes a 9-piece set of aluminum castings, all
aluminum hardware for assembly and complete instructions. This is
the form in which the sundial was originally offered by its creator,
Richar
My dear fellow dialists
Since I last posted on this subject, Laurel Browning has received a check
from Harris Morrison toward the cost of replacing the lost gnomon pattern for
the Schmoyer sundial (Sunquest sundial). The original pattern makers are now
at work on a new pattern and will be makin
At 11:26 AM 5/18/99 +0930, Peter Mayer wrote:
>
>I wonder how many other dialists there are, who like myself, have
>always wanted to own a Schmoyer dial? Could the financial problem of
>putting them back into production be eased, if not solved, if those who
>want one -- assuming the price was 'wi
At 07:17 AM 5/12/99 +0200, Giovani Barbi wrote:
>Dear friends diallists,
>I feel a little ashamed, but I have consulted the book of Waugh and did
>not find any trace of the SCHMOYER sundial of wich you are speaking.
>So, is anyone able to give me the exact reference or , better, to send
>an image
At 04:32 PM 5/11/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I just had the book 'Sundials' by Frank W.Cousins (actually a bad copy) in
>my hand and saw on page 191 a drawing of the gnomon of the Schmoyer sundial
>with many measurements. In my copy the numbers couldn't be red, but I guess
>in the original of the book t
At 11:00 AM 5/11/99 +0100, Tony Moss wrote:
>Unfortunately aluminium shrinks 3/16" per foot of pattern size when cast
>so castings cannot be used as 'patterns for themselves' although it
>should be possible to use them to design replacement items in steel for
>modern 'shell moulding' technique
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