Originally Posted By Rick_D
Once upon a time there were many compasses with friction declination presets. You just rotated the compass capsule inside the bezel and voila, declination is set.



Someone brought one of those last Sunday to my map/compass class. It's a bit easier than the geared declination - I'm so farsighted I have to really peer at the compass to get the small end of the key into the slot to reset declination, then squint at the scale to figure out which teeny tiny tick mark to set it at.
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