A year ago the Germans wouldn't send magnetic material to the USA due to American postal laws.
This month I finally got them to relent and send me two Leica 103-GW-L track prisms.
So how did the Germans solve the magnetic material issue?
They custom built a 3/32" stainless steel metal shipping container!
At no cost!
The thing came in two c channel shapes that fit together like they were machined.
Man, that is service!
I always boggle at the creativeness of them. Occasionally I'll watch a program on TV where a German crew will travel to UK with a complete house and it all fits together.
Sliding windows, wall and roof, the lot.
That's an impressive piece of gear.
Never heard of such, but I found it's available here in Australia. Not cheap.
Some photos of its application would be good.
Scott Zelenak, post: 429190, member: 327 wrote: Man, that is service!
About how much did all that service cost?
Sounds like the typical Mittelstand approach, 'loyalty to the customer' and Scott is more likely to come back for more. Deep roots going back to the Hanseatic League, which I'll bet the EU won't last as long as.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
Didn't know the Peenemunde reference...had to Google.
Scott Zelenak, post: 429190, member: 327 wrote: Leica 103-GW-L track prisms
And, they are magnetic....
What's sad, is I don't know what they are.
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 429220, member: 291 wrote: What's sad, is I don't know what they are.
It looks to me like they're prism mounts that you stick on a railroad rail.
Robert Hill, post: 429216, member: 378 wrote: Didn't know the Peenemunde reference...had to Google.
I still don't get the Peenemunde reference. I know they developed the V-2 rocket there, but I don't get the connection to prism mounts.
*2.5mm
Doubt the Germans use 3/32"
Jim Frame, post: 429221, member: 10 wrote:
I still don't get the Peenemunde reference. I know they developed the V-2 rocket there, but I don't get the connection to prism mounts.
It's supposed to be the birthplace of rocket science but...
I don't think this was rocket science but someone thinking outside the box about shipping the box by thinking about being inside the box.
I guess the next thing to ponder is why that they are not available here but that wouldn't resolve the postal service problem.
I thought there was a Peenemunde reference here but can't find it now, anyway it's an entertaining sideways view of all things Germanic, 43 mins onwards covers the Hanseatic League. Slight drift away from surveying...
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Robert Hill, post: 429225, member: 378 wrote: thinking outside the box about shipping the box by thinking about being inside the box
Yes!
Robert Hill, post: 429225, member: 378 wrote: but someone thinking outside the box about shipping the box by thinking about being inside the box.
That was the verbal version of a stereogram ?