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269007 | "Eric Coyle" <ecoyle@t...> | 2019‑08‑06 | Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
Yesterday I went into the maker-space I use, and a fellow member almost immediately buttonholed me in the coffee roomfor advice on cutting mortice and tenons on the TS. We chjatted, and then proceeded into the woodbutchery area. He knows I',m a galloot and told me about his NIB stanely 45 hr had just acquired, but as we walked into the woodbutchery area, thee was a Brunton compass tripod and mount sitting there! Long had I lusted after one of those. But given up looking for one. So awestruck I asked him if he wanted to sell it. ..And he started talking about how he was getting into handplanes, and I happened to have a couple of #3's which I had just rehabbed in the back of the truck, so we agreed on a trade. Then he says, there's more to it.and pulls out the leather case. I think he was awestruck a tad when I immediately identified it Just like this one https://geog.sfsu.edu/field-equipment/brunton-pocket-level-tripod No money changed hands The bad news is that he said, he had just sandblasted it taking off the decal. Oh well, you cannot be everywhere at once. Anyway, the bottom line in this serendipity is that we had an even trade and we both ended up happy as pigs in mud and going down our individual slippery slopes Gotta love serendipity Eric |
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269008 | Mike Rock <mikerock@m...> | 2019‑08‑06 | Re: Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
Eric, When I was in engineering school in South Dakota, my home, we discovered Reed's Cave on Easter Sunday, 1966. Pretty soon we were mapping and used the mining engineering department Brunton (pre magnetic damping) and the tripod. The case went from shiny new leather to cave mud and scuffs in a few weekends of hard work. Department head said it was the best thing we could do, USE the damned thing. Lots of miles and lots of survey points under that tripod. God bless. I still have two K&E pocket transits. And all the K&E drafting stuff, Paragon for the most part. And an almost fifty year old, 'new' LeRoy set. Polar planimeter, proportional dividers and a Paragon Transit. Fun stuff, all for sale now. |
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269009 | John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> | 2019‑08‑07 | Re: Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
Uh, Eric, let me get this straight: You traded “a couple” (? 2 ?) rehabbed and tuned Stanley Bailey #3’s for a Brunton Pocket Transit with case? If that’s correct, there must be an area of extremely low barometric pressure in your immediate proximity. ( Bowdlerized version of the traditional Porch congratulatory exclamation. ) John Ruth |
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269010 | Erik Levin | 2019‑08‑07 | Re: Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
Eric gloated: > but as we walked into the woodbutchery area, thee was a > Brunton compass tripod and mount sitting there! Very nice find. Never been on my list, though my father had an M2 version (the army edition) and I was fascinated by it as a kid. I have no idea what happened to it. Mike responded: > I still have two K&E pocket transits. And all the K&E drafting stuff, > Paragon for the most part. And an almost fifty year old, 'new' LeRoy > set. Polar planimeter, proportional dividers and a Paragon Transit. Suspiciously similar to the collection in my desk, except I have no transit. I really have no use any more, but if I find the right unit at the right price..... Unfortunately, or possibly fortuitously, all such devices tend to be priced high in my area. *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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269011 | Paul Fuss <paulfuss1@g...> | 2019‑08‑07 | Re: Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:05 PM Eric Coyle |
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269026 | Gregory Hahn <greghahn@s...> | 2019‑08‑08 | Re: Serendipity strikes when you least expect it! |
Hi Guys: I've had a German-made pocket transit for about 30 years, not a Brunton, but the same quality in workmanship and features, can't lay my hands on it at the moment to give the instrument maker's name, sorry. There used to be a tourist trap store in town selling everything brass, street numbers, coat hooks, incense burners, etc. They also sold knock-off brass pocket transits made in China, but they are out of business now, and the quality wasn't very good. The biggest kick I got transit-wise was during the film "Message In A Bottle" when Robin Penn Wright presented Kevin Costner with a shiny brass "Nautical Compass" in a walnut bow with a brass plate inscribed with some "think of me when you use this" nonsense. I think the filmmakers just used it for the "Gizmosity" value. Naturally, a pocket transit would be almost useless on a moving boat at sea, except for the compass value. Anyway, nice find, and next time you're on Ceylon (Serendip) use it in good health. -Greg |
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