Re: Sundials in Vancouver?

2000-07-19 Thread Bob Haselby
Michael Koblic wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob Haselby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Clem Padin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Sundials in Vancouver? Clem Padin wrote: I'll be traveling to Vancouver

Re: Sundials in Vancouver?

2000-07-17 Thread Bob Haselby
Clem Padin wrote: I'll be traveling to Vancouver in a couple of weeks. Any interesting sundials to visit? thanks, Clem Clem, I presume you are talking about Vancouver, B.C. I was there several summers ago and found a sundial quite by accident on the beach. Its been awhile I am going

Re: Search for Don LeGrand

2000-07-17 Thread Bob Haselby
associated with it on the base so I don't think the gnomon was complicated or correcting for local time. If I can be of any help let me know. Happy restoration, Bob Haselby San Diego, CA

GPS and magnetic compasses for dial orientation.

2000-03-15 Thread Bob Haselby
Hi all, I have been skimming all the dial stuff lately and have seen a few comments on using GPS and Compasses for orienting sundials. On my first experimental dials I used a puck type marine hand bearing compass for alignment. I live on a hill and was able to sight to a distant object that

Re: Stone sandblasting

2000-03-13 Thread Bob Haselby
Bob Haselby wrote: Mike and John, I have looked into sand carving a little and found the following web pages to be very informative. (They actually prefer to use aluminum oxide grit to blast). http://www.rayzist.com/Main.htm is the web page of a company local to me (San Diego area

Metric

2000-02-14 Thread Bob Haselby
Hello All, The company I work for has be metric for years. However printed circuit boards are still laid out in English units. I think this is because Integrated circuit packages have traditionally be designed in Inches. Integrated circuit die are now talked about in gates per square millimeter.

Re: GPS clock accuracy

1999-02-01 Thread Bob Haselby
Fernando, Your GPS is probably as good as it gets as far as time accuracy is concerned. However your unit must be tracking or have been locked on recently. The internal clock does not have very good long term accuracy by itself. Actual time from the gps is accurate in the microsecond level. We

Re: Etching using photoresist

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Haselby
at this web page for abrasive blast photo resist materials. I think they can also be used for chemical etching. http://www.photobrasivesystems.com/datasheets/films.html or http://www.rayzist.com Bob Haselby

Photo mask process for sundial layouts?

1998-01-12 Thread Bob Haselby
(except the samples). Has anyone in this group used this technique for sundial fabrication? I appears to be a process which could be quite economical and can provide a great deal of detail into a very durable dial material. Happy dialing Bob Haselby (N32d58' W117d06')

Sun Dials in London?

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Haselby
I will be visiting London,UK soon and was wondering if there are any sundials that I just shouldn't miss. Another problem I could use some help with. I am a member of NASS and have never been sucessful in geting the compendium to work on my home pc. It works on my pc at work. I usually get a

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1997-03-14 Thread Bob Haselby
who sundial

Sundials in Greece??

1996-06-20 Thread Bob Haselby
Hello All, I am planning to travel to Greece next month and was wondering if anyone knows if there are any historic sundials in Athens or the eastern Greek Isles. Any information would be helpfull and appreciated. Bob Haselby San Diego Ca [EMAIL PROTECTED]