Pete, I have brass Brunton look-alike (like yours, made in India). It was a gift from Dick Venters about 15 years ago. It is not as high in quality as the real Brunton as you said, but looks great on the bookshelf!
Regards, John From: swrcav...@googlegroups.com <swrcav...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Pete Lindsley Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 11:12 PM To: Logan McNatt <lmcn...@austin.rr.com> Cc: Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com>; Orion Knox <orion_k...@alumni.utexas.net>; Carl & Glenda Kunath <carl.kun...@suddenlink.net>; James Reddell <jreddell.ca...@austin.utexas.edu>; James Jasek <caver...@hot.rr.com>; Bob "Rune" Burnett <bburne...@austin.rr.com>; N E W L I S T Southwestern Cavers of the National Speleological Society <swrcav...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [SWR CAVERS] Re: Brass Brunton Pocket Transit Logan, I bought a Brass Brunton several years ago off eBay, and the seller claimed it was an authentic antique. NOT! It is a lower precision “look alike”, made in India along with similar artsy transits and the like. As I recall, comparing it to the other 3-4 “real” Bruntons I have, I noted around 30 differences with an authentic Brunton. Nice to look at, but not a precision instrument. It took about a month to get my money back (~$30-40). - Pete On Jul 21, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Logan <lmcn...@austin.rr.com<mailto:lmcn...@austin.rr.com>> wrote: I'm interrupting the TexasLockLearList to discuss something that actually has relevance to caving, and to Lee Jay Graves RIP. The caving connection is the Brunton Pocket Transit, aka the Brunton Compass. Except for the old-timers, most of you probably have never used one, so here is some background from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunton_compass It was commonly used by cavers when I started in Fall 1968. But over the next several years it had been largely replaced (at least among the American cavers I knew) by the Suunto compass made in Finland, which are still popular today. https://www.suunto.com/en-us/About-Suunto/History-Timeline/ In fact for quite a few years a set of the compass and clinometer has been donated by TSS to the winner of the TCR Survey Contest. Now the Lee Jay connection: His storage shed needs to be empty by July 31, so Justin Shaw assembled a team with Galen Falgot, Drew Thompson, Eric Flint & Meg, and Logan McNatt to go over there Friday July 19th evening. Gil Ediger loaned his wonderful Isuzu dump truck and we spent several hours loading over half the contents of the shed. Early the next morning we unloaded everything onto tables in Gil's front yard for an "Everything Must Go Fire Sale". As we emptied the tubs and bags, I noticed something I had never seen before: a Brass Brunton Pocket Transit, in pristine never-used condition! So I removed it from the sale items thinking it can go in the Texas Speleological Center Museum whenever that is transferred from the old TSS office at the Pickle Research Campus. A Google search showed the image below which is identical except Lee Jay's is stamped with INDIA rather than STANLEY LONDON. It appears to be functional and probably modern. At least it doesn't say "Made in China"! Comments and more information on this item are most welcome. Please forward to other cavers who might have insight. Thanks, Logan McNatt [Image result for Brass Brunton compass India] END OF INTERRUPTION; RESUME "USUAL" PROGRAMING ON TEXASLOCKLEARLIST -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Southwestern Cavers of the National Speleological Society" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to swrcavers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:swrcavers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/swrcavers/171889AB-06C1-4EB1-B0EC-50DB71848D5B%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/swrcavers/171889AB-06C1-4EB1-B0EC-50DB71848D5B%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
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