Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

[midniteflyer52]

Tribe,

I spotted a compass under taylorcraft on Ebay, looks like a good core.
Regards,
Glen Brodeur
TF #42

[M Towsley]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

Something looks wrong with those welds, though. That's what is turning me off of it. The angle of the windshield mount looks wrong in the pictures.

[midniteflyer52]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

It looks like someone may have put the compass upside down in the can and then took a picture of it.

Glen

[M Towsley]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

That's what they did, it just bolts in from the back. But the stand-off looks wrong to me. Too bad, it just doesn't look right.

[NC36061]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

That's what they did, it just bolts in from the back. But the stand-off looks wrong to me. Too bad, it just doesn't look right.

Its correct, identical to the one here, crude weld where you never see it, they just have the compass upside down in the housing. It will be interesting to see what it brings...

[M Towsley]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

I had a correct Airpath Streamline bubble-faced compass for my L-2, slightly different than this as it was a dash mount. The welds didn't look anything like the one on Ebay. I guess it all depended upon who was doing them that day.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

I have two of them. The compass is upside down in the eBay photo and both of my housings had the horrible welds. If you want an original compass for your ride, I would point out I looked for my first one about 15 years and the second one about a decade more. They are NOT easy to find. I bought the first one from the WACO museum in Ohio. I probably have about $500 and $1000 in my two (they are not cheap to overhaul either).
You gotta be crazy.
Hank

[M Towsley]

Re: Taylorcraft Compass on Ebay

$400.00 five years ago for the one I bought off of Ebay unrestored.