Hello David, Patrick and all, I once built an equatorial dial from 12" stainless steel pipe sections. The good news is that the material 316 SS was easy to work with hand tools. The bad news is, as Patrick notes below, the surface contrast was low on the bright metal so it was difficult to read. The surface was not finished or polished but the contrast was still low. Twenty years later it is still as bright as it was when it was built.
Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 51 W 115 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Powers Sent: October 17, 2002 7:21 AM To: INTERNET:[email protected] Subject: stainless steel sundials Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >I am in the early stages of a project that is likely to involves the making of a stainless steel sundial< Do be careful and do some experiments with the finish you intend to use because stainless steel can sometimes not produce enough contrast between shade and light for the dial to be very useful. Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarding addresses: E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.dunelm.org.uk/homepages?patrick_powers Lat: N 51d. 49m. 09s: Long: W 00d. 21m. 53s - -
