can be held financially accountable for items missing or
damaged through negligence.
Most consumable items contained in the kit, such as
pencils, pencil leads, lumber crayon, and surveyor’s
flaggings, are stocked in the battalion supply department
for kit replenishment. Additional supplies and
equipment are also stocked in the engineering office
surveyor’s linker to supplement the kits.
QUESTIONS
Q1. According to your textbook, the vertical axis is
the basis of all adjustments made to the
engineer’s level. What is the basis for
adjustments to the transit?
Q2. You should never attempt to adjust an instrument
until the same test, repeated how many times,
shows the same amount of error?
Q3. What is the purpose of adjusting the line of sight
of a level or a transit?
Q4. Why is it necessary for the vertical cross hair of
a transit to be perpendicular to the horizontal
axis of the instrument?
Q5. As you have learned when apart, such as a level
tube or a cross hair, is out of adjustment, there
is a method of compensating for the maladjust-
ment. When should you use these compensating
methods?
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