Sure would be good to go back to those days Sent from my iPhoneX
On Jul 22, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Charles Loving <lovingi...@gmail.com> wrote: Tape and Brunton survey by...... I recall those in early days before Bockbeer and his telenovela. > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:12 AM Pete Lindsley <caverp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> 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 > > > > > > > END OF INTERRUPTION; RESUME "USUAL" PROGRAMING ON TEXASLOCKLEARLIST > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers -- Charlie Loving _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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