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Message 1757314 - Posted: 18 Jan 2016, 14:16:04 UTC

Close enough Admiral. It is a non-magnetic screw driver, used to adjust iron balance masses inside a magnetic compass as part of the compass alignment process. The moving masses balance out fields produced by the metal in the airplane (or boat or whatever), obviously you need a non-magnetic tool near the compass while doing this. In the airplane biz we call the process "swinging the compass", since the airplane gets spun around while it is done. It has been done this way for a long time.


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Message 1757405 - Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 4:14:46 UTC

You mean these? I use a brass wrench.
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Message 1757459 - Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 13:13:30 UTC

Very interesting Carlos. Probably wouldn't fit in most small planes. Here is what I'm used to.


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Message 1757489 - Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 20:01:17 UTC - in response to Message 1757405.  

Brass being a non-ferrous metal, is also non-magnetic.
So would an aluminum tool.
Not sure about titanium.
Or unobtainium for that matter.
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Message 1757517 - Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 23:24:43 UTC - in response to Message 1757489.  

Brass being a non-ferrous metal, is also non-magnetic.
So would an aluminum tool.
Not sure about titanium.
Or unobtainium for that matter.


Unobtanium proved to be the most baffling of scientific discoveries in the area of superconductors as it had an extremely strong magnetic field,
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Message 1757544 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 1:40:00 UTC

I hope you see the light.


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Message 1757548 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 1:48:42 UTC

For sct telescope collimation?
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Message 1757554 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 2:29:49 UTC

Close. Real close. But not quite.

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Message 1757556 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 2:36:07 UTC

I think I'll hold my eye.
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Message 1757560 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 2:38:33 UTC

Sort of. Other end.

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Message 1757563 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 2:44:42 UTC

Need to reflect on this for a moment.
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Message 1757570 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 3:28:07 UTC

Sure do Newt.

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Message 1757592 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 5:51:59 UTC - in response to Message 1757560.  

Sort of. Other end.

No, right end, it is the big eye. The other eye is isn't attached to the tool.
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Message 1757599 - Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 6:32:46 UTC

So you weren't talking about the two marbles in your head.

Still curious about what you people think the tool is.

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Message 1757761 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 1:26:49 UTC

Mirror grinding tools
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Message 1757766 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 2:08:20 UTC - in response to Message 1757761.  

Mirror grinding tools

Nope.

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Message 1757802 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 7:12:13 UTC - in response to Message 1757599.  

So you weren't talking about the two marbles in your head.

Still curious about what you people think the tool is.

I'm not sure the word tool applies.
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Message 1757805 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 8:16:39 UTC
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I hate to see if it was some over sized can opener. LOL

But is it for a telescope mirror?
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Message 1757825 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 11:49:27 UTC - in response to Message 1757805.  

I hate to see if it was some over sized can opener. LOL

But is it for a telescope mirror?

Yes. Those are two six inch mirror cells without the mirrors.

Pm on the way.

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Message 1757856 - Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 15:14:08 UTC

So they are for holding mirror? I thought they might be but I did not consider that a tool. Oh well guess I need to broaden my definition of tool.
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