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 declination and inclination
>correctly. Even for an experienced dialist and surveyor, this is a
>challenge. I can just hear the customer complaining to you that his
>expensive new sundial doesn't work (because he took the measurements
>wrong). 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.
>I wonder if you and the customer could trust a hired surveying company of
>some sort to measure the window's declination?
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