Luke Coletti wrote: >Hello Prof. Dilly, > > I've been keeping a copy of your original message (below) regarding >your interest in the P&G sundial. I too am interested in constructing >one, have you yet obtained Patent papers and or mechanical details? I'd >be interested in sharing this effort if you are willing. I hope to hear >back from you when you can. > For more tan a year now I have been working on, and have almost completed, a set of full-size detailed engineering drawings of a Pilkington-Gibbs Type 1 dial - the bowl-mounted type adjustable to latitude 60°. (The 'Universal' Model 5 was mounted on semi-circular latitude scale.) The drawings are in Adobe illustrator 8.0 (Mac) format but will be supplied as A3 paper laser prints.
The only outstanding item is the cam which I'm having to revise as the original sample was worn and distorted. Thanks to Geoff Parsons I now have a better example to work from. My recent NASS Conference visit and existing contracts have kept me from this last job but I ought to find time to complete the last drawing 'ere long. Many hours of work have gone into this project so I'm afraid there will be an appropriate charge. My printer is only A4 and I have yet to discover the agency charges for sets of A3 prints so cannot quote a price as yet. If anyone is interested please contact me off list. Best Wishes Tony Moss Lindisfarne Sundials.
