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Old 10-01-14, 08:23 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Leitender View Post
I´m quite certain that I never saw a different compass on a german wwII uboat than the Anschütz Gyro compas which I tried to reconstruct in my modification.
As I tried to express in my earlier post, the compass you did such a good job of recreating in your very nice mod had two rotating dials. The inner dial was marked 1-10 because each mark was a degree, and it rotated once for every 10 degrees on the outer 360-degree dial.

From photographs I've looked at it seems that the outer dial of the US compass was part of the housing, and it was the inner ring was part of a flat disc that rotated.
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