OK, just finished smacking myself just like Joe Ferg predicted. All that is required is to unscrew the glass compass cover and manually rotate the out...

PS. I tried this procedure early on but the graduated outer circle did not rotate freely and I was reluctant to use more force to get it to rotate. As...

Finally figured it out. A lot of wasted time looking for some kind of mechanical means to bring the declination arc to zero when there is NO mechanism...

I agree with you but if you look at the page out of a manual, figure 2 is supposed to be an illustration of a transit adjusted for a W declinatio. Unl...

Don't have to smack myself, still have a couple of younger friends that frequently do it for me. If you would like to speed up the smacking process pe...

Picture of the beast in question. BTW this and my other old antiquated survey equipment is going into a trust and the trustee will be posting the item...

I thought about that and will probably do that but would be convenient to just adjust it and not have to do some more calculations with this 82 year o...

An old ex empoyee of mine dropped by while I was posting this and looked at the picture. When he stopped laughing he reminded me that I had used this ...

Here is a picture of the compass and I read it to be adjusted for a W declination similar to the picture posted by Norman  

Thank you this is very helpful and tells me that I am at least able to bring the compass circle back to zero. The manual says that I can rotate the ci...

Second picture of transit: <img src=" removed link " />                   ...

Thanks for the reply. It is a fairly complicated process to attach pictures on this forum but I think I have it figured out and will give it a try. Th...