A while back there was a thread about compasses in which someone had brought up two problems with the Brunton 8099 compass - bubbles in the capsule and rubbing off of the printing on the bottom of the baseplate.

I had read about those problems in other 8099 reviews, so I wrote Brunton and asked them to comment on these issues. I thought you might like to see the the response I received:

[color:"blue"] These are 2 frequent questions we get. More so for the bubble. I’ve only actually dealt with a few cases of the number rubbing off the bottom of the base plate, but I have seen it. I can’t honestly say I have a solution for that, but I have passed that info on to the people who need to know, they just haven’t given a good answer to this. Sorry for that. As for the bubble situation that was very frequent I’m happy to say we have a solution for that. We discovered that the magnet that directs the needle was actually emitting a gas that was creating a bubble. This was caused cause the magnet wasn’t appropriately sealed. We have recently changed the magnets in hopes to not have bubbles! Now I’m sitting and waiting for the feedback on whether it solved the problem…no complaints so far.

Thanks for your concerns, and I will press the product managers on the ideas of different methods of applying the scales to the bottom of the compass. Hope this helps.

Thanks

Chris | Customer Support Supervisor [/color]

If I get more information from them I'll relay it back to this forum.

Ken K.