A SIMPLE COMPASS.
(Sent in by Mavis McClymont, Jit. Albert).
A simple and serviceable trammel compass can be made from a cork, a pencil and a picce of wire. The wire should be stiff and about eight inches in length. At one end this should be bent an inch downwards at a right alible. Tlii.< end should be filed to a point. Make a hole through the cork so that the pencil may be fitted in.
Then push the wire through in the manner shown in the sketch. The wire, of course, will have to go a little to one side of the pencil. The compass is now ready for use and the cork is moved backwards and forwards, according to the size of the circle you want to describe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 18
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130A SIMPLE COMPASS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 18
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