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It is simple, and it does work.
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Excellent idea
<< How many people
necessarilly have a plain mirror (or is that plane mirror) to hand or even
know what is meant by the term? >>
I think it is a plain, plane mirror. Or perhaps a small, flat mirror
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Yes, you are finding the time when t
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Peter Tandy wrote:
> Mike Shaw's method sounds too wonderfully simple to be true. However, I
> would perhaps suggest one small change if this is to apply to distant
> 'clients' ordering dials (which is how I seem to remember this thread
> starting!). I would supply paper to w
Mike Shaw's method sounds too wonderfully simple to be true. However, I
would perhaps suggest one small change if this is to apply to distant
'clients' ordering dials (which is how I seem to remember this thread
starting!). I would supply paper to which was attached a square or thin
strip of refle
If only one could rely on that! Sadly the variation between successive
measurements even over say an hour - and even with one of Tony Moss's
excellent declination measurement devices - is such that one has always to
make some average estimate and possibly eliminate from that avearage the
highe
John Carmichael wrote:
>Side note: I've always been too scared to offer my customers declining and
>or reclining sundials, unless they are local and I can personally visit
>the site. Not because I don't know how to design them, but because I
>cannot trust the customers to measure a wall's decl
Hello All,
The method I use to get the declination was suggested to me by Dave
Bell some time ago. I have designed a sheet with instructions that I e-mail
to the client. He puts the sheet in the spot he wants the sundial to occupy,
makes sure the sheet is level, hangs a plumb line and puts a dot
In a message dated 7/29/2002 4:47:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> 4) Note the date and time when the string, the shadow of the string, and
the
> reflection of the string all coincide.
I Like it! Sounds accurate and almost foolproof. I especially like the
simple
John
carmichael wrote
<< I wish we could come
up with an easy fool-proof method that an
ignorant non-dialing customer could use to determine a wall's
declination>>
My suggestion
is:
Give these instructions to the
client.
1) Stick a piece of paper
to the outside of a vertical window
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>I could envision a packaged "device" you could mail to the customer, wiht
instructions. It would be placed against the outside of the window (or
wall) in question, when the sun falls fully upon it. You would have a
plane surface with a st
John Carmichael wrote:
>My only suggestion is that you may want to rethink promissing a quick
>delivery date of 3 to 4 weeks. Remember, things do go wrong. 6 weeks is
>more customary for orders like this. Customers get very upset when
>delivery does not happen when promissed. I tell my custom
> Side note: I've always been too scared to offer my customers declining
> and or reclining sundials, unless they are local and I can personally
> visit the site. Not because I don't know how to design them, but
> because I cannot trust the customers to measure a wall's declination
> and inclinati
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Subject: The Spectra sundial
Hello All,
After a considerabl
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From:
J. Tallman
To: Sundial List
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:14 AM
Subject: The Spectra sundial
Hello All,
After a consider
Hello All,
After a considerable amount of fiddling around, I finally have a link
where you can go to see the new sundial I have been working on. Since I
have asked several questions on this list during the course of this project,
I thought some of you may like to see the end result of those discu
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