Compass help needed!

[Gunner]

Hey guys I would like to know where you guys store your compases? Should I wrap it in anything or just put it in my gun cabinet? Thanks. Geoff. Merry Christmas all and dont forget that Jesus is the reason for the season.

 

[jrf]

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[HM]

In my 'survival pouch', in my 'survival day pack', in the closet of the bedroom (that one is a coincidence). It is in the great company of the knives, a folding saw and metal hand spade......or you think it is wrong?
I see your point and see the potential problem. How long is a compass accurate close to a metal?
JRF, did you check for any electric wire, metal (door frame) close or in the wall?

HM

PS: Merry Christmas All!

 

[Normark]

Hi...

I store both of mine in their cases,, one American compass case,, the other is Canadian...
They just sit up on the bookshelf by themselves...That's why I have 2 so they aren't lonely!

ttyle Eric...

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[jrf]

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[HM]

JRF, thanks for the quick response.

Now, I am curious too where all you guys store the compasses.

If consensus advises, I can dedicate a spot to them on the wooden bookshelf right above each other so they do not even bother each other.

I am waiting for more opinions.
Thanks,

HM

PS: Eric, did you aline them or they are trying to remagnetize each other...?

 

[hso]

I've never considered there to be a problem storing compases with other metal implements. I use Brunton and Silva compases, but there shouldn't be any problem. Think about what it would take to "screw up" your compass. It's been magnetised in an artificial magnetic field. It would take a very strong magnetic field to reverse it's polarity. Therefore, short of an electric coil carrying current you shouldn't have to worry.

Take care,

Mike

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[Cougar Allen]

I threw a compass into a drawer full of junk and later found it pointed south. It wasn't lying flat in the drawer and the needle was cockeyed on the pivot so it couldn't turn. It surprised me that it pointed exactly south....

Another time I put a compass in an outside pocket of a pack and a kind of multitool thing inside the pack -- the multitool had magnifying glasses and tweezers and screwdrivers and all kinds of tools, I don't remember whatall, and it had a magnet on it too. That compass was demagnetized; it would point in whatever direction I turned it to. I magnetized it again by stroking with the magnet.

I don't throw compasses into drawers any more; I set it on a shelf and I turn it to make sure the needle can rotate. I figure as long as the needle (or card) can rotate it'll point to whatever direction local north is in and it'll be fine.

I don't bring multitools with magnets camping any more, either.



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[MichLee]

I store my compass in a leather pouch, I have never worried about metal being near one and never ahd an issue with it. The others ones are clipped constantly to my watchbands.

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