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Too Much Faith in Your Tripod

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Sometimes, vibration can affect just the instrument upon it.

A long-since-retired PC told me once they had set up a theodolite on a dock. Vibration had slowly worked loose the instrument hold-down screw and when they picked it up for the day... into the drink it went.

I reckon that's taking the term "plunging the scope" a tad too literally-

 
Posted : August 31, 2016 3:13 pm