Beaten up U.S. Army lensatic compass restoration - Restoring militaria
I restored this old U.S. Army lensatic tritium compass, which is very worn and the lenses are so dirty and scratched it is a bit hard to see through. The magnifying glass was completely impossible to use. It is also missing the lanyard. This is a quite simple restoration and service project.
I started the project with a disassembly. I had to drill out the rivet from one of the other hinge had a spring pin which I hammered out. Other than that the whole compass was held together with 4 screws and a sort of a lock ring (I hate putting those back in by the way). This one was not an actual ring but the idea was the same.
After the disassembly I used paint stripper to remove the old paint. I thought That is probably the least abrasive method as the body is made of aluminium. Also one of the pieces had a rubber gasket and other one had delicate pieces of tritium and wire which I was not able to remove without causing any damage. Paint tripper allowed me to remove the paint without damaging those parts.
After removing the paint I put on a coat of primer and military grade paint. It has great NIR (near infra red) reflecting values. That means it will be much harder to detect with night vision. It will look the same color as leaves etc. Normal paint is usually only hard to detect in daylight but with night vision it stands out because it reflect NIR light differently.
After painting I cleaned the lenses. I thought all of them were very scratched but only the magnifying glass was scratched. I Used car polish compound and resin polish to remove the scratches and make it usable again.
After assembly I used paracord to make a new cord for it. I could have gone with something fancy with complex knots etc. but I decided to make just a simple cord, similar to what it used to have back in the day.
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KOMMENTARE
I ran alot of land nav courses with one like this. Old school memories at Ft. Bragg....
chuck norris chews his teeth
not gonna lie, you made my ears a little bit uncomfortable due to that hammering! RIP to other Headphone users out there!
It was a nice compass ..... but you totaly destroy it
I LOVE your videos!
Concerned about your safety on this one. Lol..... I bet you could restore an entire historical museum!
What is the bit adapter/screwdriver set being used in this video? It’s not the yellow one
"Controlled disposal required" Odd Tinkering: yeah right, disposal
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Well im gonna be SOL if i loss this in the middle of the night
So with all the stuff you restore, do you keep it all? And just have a bunch of old stuff, cause I think that would be really cool just to have a huge collection of old stuff.
Where do you find all these things to restore, some great stuff
Yes because graphite comes from a PEN
you tied a granny knot in the lanyard
impressive work...
Don’t watch this with headphones lmao. The hammering scenes make you feel like you’re getting your ears boxed
wattery soap looool
Do not forget to use the azimuth locking lever Lieutenant, lol. Good times with these.
I like to use my hammer for all my repairs. Or my trusty hatchet.
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Ducktor didn't get a bath on that watery soap this time...
he did not degrease after stripping the paint
What was the most complex restoration, you have ever did? I like to watch your videos while I'm working. It is like a terapy.
Sorry, that knot wasn't a square knot. It's Right over left then Left over right. :)
Your restoration work is zero
is watery soap better than using soapy water?
you sure that's tritium? I thought in WWII most glowing things were still radium.
That pen you used at 11:42 makes me feel so nostalgic. I had that same SM-Liiga pen as a kid and if I remember correctly the pen had an eraser shaped like a hockey blade at the top so the whole pen looked like an ice hockey stick.
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Cool ASMR
chuck norris is a communist.
3:22 ahhhh the cut in the glove after removing the thing aaaaaaaHHHHHH
15:15; adding the "dummy" cord!
What is that driver that you use? I have seen it in other restoration videos, and would like to procure one.
Me again I got a few of those from Vietnam era none fully restored one still works the 2 others not syllable. Like I would
How much?
2:40 bloodstain 5:44 its over 9000!!!
For small stuff like this you might get a qt jar filled with WD40 just to dip the entire thing in.
Nice work👍🏼
I am in the process of rebuilding an ancient Soviet "Vostok" case compass which was basically a Vostok standard case, the registers printed on a sticker in the case back and the watch innards substituted with a very simple compass that you wore on your wrist like a standard Vostok watch. Some Vostok watches whether by design or accident ended up with the compass printed casebacks seen as a useful emergency tool to aid navigation with your watch but not very practicable as it meant opening caseback to the elements.
what's the liquid he use with the screws???
You should be more cautious around tritium. Your could get cancer.
Good result, nice finished product but the video is too long.
"It's" = "it is;" " Its" = (of a thing) ie "Its cover [say a book's] is torn."
I was given one of these when I was 14 years old as new in the belt case. I used it all over the world to sighte in microwave antennas. It still is in fine shape and as new after 60 years!
It's like watching a train wreck. You're constantly cringing, but you can't look away.
Its interesting that it has meters marked on it even though the USA has never moved over to metric from imperial
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I believe the military uses metric system a lot. At least in movies they often talk about "clicks" which are kilometers. But I don't really know what they use in real life, that might be just to make it sound cooler
15:42 гост 86?????????? it is from ussr!!!
Good job
The end result looks great, but I'm certain that you could've done a better job painting that unit. Ps.: I love your masking tape tags.
Looks like the sheep that writes the captions messed up at 0:44
A compass that hasn't been touched in years? must've bean an 2LT's lmfao
Beaten up? BEATEN UP? I was ISSUED compasses that look like this lol.
3:30 looked painful, it sliced the glove open.
3:29 Am i the only one who see the the little cut in the glove?
I wish my father was still alive to see this. He would've found this so fascinating.
awesome video.. where did you find all the old stuff??
3:30 that sliced through the gloves
the reason it needs controlled disposal is that the tritium used to make it glow in the dark is radioactive. it's prolly ok as long as you don't go licking the needle, or keeping it in your underoos.
Can anyone recommend me a spray paint this is identical to the one that the army uses? I have some old m18 smokes and ammo cans that I want to repaint but I can’t find the perfect shade of od green. I tried a few brands but they are usually to light
Pains me to see the granny knot rather than a square knot in the string. Though realistically it would be untied and retied all the time as a granny knot anyways.
Very good, as ever!!!
3:29 Painfully???
Ha! Classic mistake. I’ve seen the compass. Now I know where you live!
"...restored OLD U.S. Army lensatic..." (me with sad face remembering using these when I served). Excellent restore, though!
Great job, let's do well, see you all again
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Brings back lots of old memories. Thinking about finding one of these for my son now that's he's in boy scouts.
16:24 Yes, I guess we should!
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I got a military compass that needs to be restored
you tied a granny knot in the cord.....it will come undone
Any idea what year this item is from?
i have probably fake copy of this compass
where do you buy the kompas water ? 😉
Right at the end when you put a reef knot in the lanyard you didn't. You made a granny-knot. At each end of the knot the two elements have to pass through the loops together.
3:30 be careful dude Looks very hurt
I remember these from Boy Scouts and the scary radiological warning on the back. Oh no, you opened it!
bettern ANY depot job!
HOw'd he get ahold of my old compass? Q/M...?
There'd a tooth paste jel that is finer than car polish that will work very well too, on lenses watch crystals and hard to remove brown bathtub stains. Its called Aim
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beaten up us army
you are lucky you have that model. The one I have has the radiation symbol on it, I think it was the original model with tritium 120mCi 3H in it.
2:24 thought it was bleeding. XD
3:27 who did not feel that....
I got one like this when i was younger I didn't know how to use it
120 mCi of 3H.... Controlled Disposal Required. What part of that compass had tritium in it?
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3:30 you can see the glove was ripped
Beautiful restauration, but with one fault: at 14:47 the knot is wrong. here the correct version: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Knoten_Kreuzknoten.jpg
What is that weird wire on the cover of all compasses
3:58 bro you launched that into the stratosphere!
Isn't that radium that makes it glow? when you started using the polishing compound on the lens, I expected a caption of "one eternity later" before seeing the finished result.
I will always appreciate your sense of humor :3
03:27 -Ouch!