The process of mass producing compasses. The last compass factory in Japan, 80 years old. 

Yes, even though I have a watch that has a compass feature, this compass caught my attention with its retro design

日本有很多手工的產品。其品質好，且物美價廉。

Congratulations, you just paid the master for expensive leather shoes and threw a lot of money down the drain)

They are assembling pieces of a product, this is not called "craftsmanship". Children in China do this for free.

спасибо японским дедам за верность традициям

I still carry one as a backup incase my phone or GPS unit fail. But I am ancient.

@@johnfenn I don't carry a compass but I can read a map and use a compass if necessary it may be a lost skill if you're not a scout as a kid

Sadly most do not, most young people do not know how to tell time on a analog clock, all they have seen is digital displays. As a Surveyor I taught all of my children how to use a map, compass and scale. They have done the same with their children, some things are simple skills we need to pass along.

My Girl Scouts were taught how to use a compass on a map and for land navigation, hope they still remember!!

Many (most) schools here in Sweden teach it as part of the curriculum. and orienteering is popular, we are talking 1% of population taking part in countrywide event each year so... here at least most are familiar with the process.

​@@MultiKumar321But a plastic compass will not survive “several generations.” Several years of use - and it will become covered with scratches, chips, and will be thrown away as unusable.

Love these videos. However - When they all on the same table with the same influence - Should they not all be pointing in the same directions direction ? many seems to be pointing in different directions !! seems to be a fundamental requirement of a compass - even a slight difference could mean getting lost or falling off a cliff??

@@YouTViewer If they were al pointing in the same direction, it is then I would feel nervous about using them! One of the first things you learn about using compasses in the field is that they are affected by any kind of magnetic influence. For this reason, you would not, for example, 1) lay your map on a car bonnet/hood, and take a bearing from it, 2) hold your compass on on adjacent to a brick or stone wall, 3) be near a high voltage electric transmission cable, I am sure you get the picture - because all of these generate a magnetic field of various intensities. Any magnetic influence will cause the needle in these sensitive compasses to point other than towards the poles. You saw that the first process in their manufacture was to magnetise the needles, so these too will affect each other as you have witnessed. Simply by moving any of them away from the others and it will very soon settle down and do its job of pointing to the poles. Picking up on your last point, some people have been known to walk over cliffs and other equally dramatic means of ending their walking careers, however, the reasons are unlikely to have ever included a working compass. The usual problems include, untrained users of compasses, untrained users of maps (so they had no idea where they were in the first place), people who ignore the weather conditions, idiots who are trying to look hard and heroic when they do not understand the environment or the geological conditions around them. All of these reasons are way, way, way further up the list of problems likely to cause death than a compass.

@@YouTViewerEach compass has it’s own magnetic field, so put a few of them close enough and they’ll start to affect each other’s arrow orientation.

Гугл карты нормально работают без интернета и связи для этого есть GPS

I noticed that, but you'll notice it's by horizontal line. I suspect some of the lines are on a table with a magnetic steel crossbar.

They are interfering with each other.

Японское качество!

Когда компаса близко друг к другу, их стрелки и притягиваются друг к другу. Это нормально

You must be quite spoiled

@@pomprocks No, I had jobs just as bad and just as mind deadening. Then I went back to school so I would never have to do that again.

Judging by the pants & shoes, it's the same senior gentleman doing many of the steps throughout the process, including the press - I'm sure these are also quality control checks as well. Probably no more than three or four individuals all told (family business?), with many different models made, so it's not quite as mindless as all that. (I can't imagine their demand/volumes are all that high these days.) Plus, this was just assembly, with no parts fabrication shown (injection molding and printing the plastic, stamping and printing the needles, making & coiling the lanyards, vac-forming the bubble packaging and printing the backing), some of which is undoubtedly outsourced and so requires supplier coordination, receiving and warehousing. However, it IS factory work, and it's not for everyone. It'd be interesting to know if there's an apprentice/successor in the company. What I find most interesting is the specialist equipment used, like the buffing machine with the conveyor -- if they're the last compass maker in Japan, it's probably decades old and is the only machine of its kind around. Others, like the vacuum chamber, look homegrown.

@@mikepetersen2927 I actually agree that the specialized tools used in factories, be it jigs, special power tools and various machines can be quite fascinating. Supporting these things is also rewarding work. Machinists (tool and die makers) make the specialized jigs and press inserts and the like which an engineering team would have made the specifications.. There is a ton of interesting work in a factory. But not this stuff shown in the video. Now, maybe if the guy has a 75 eye cue (I know), it's not that mind dumbing. . Furthermore, from the looks of it, every single step shown in this process would be fairly easy to automate, but would require large capital investment. There probably isn't enough demand to warrant all new production equipment. This equipment they have has probably long since fully depreciated and with little expense, at least in financing.

Do you have a job, a career, IRL? Come back when you do.

worker got a rolex watch

@@user-dq4sh2mt8l Owner.

Японцы... Что с них взять? Страна маленькая, куда ни пойди - один фиг не заблудишься.

Where (In USA) can you purchase these from?

youtube traduit automatiquement les titres dans la langue choisie, je vois leurs titres en anglais par exemple: "The process of mass producing compasses. The last compass factory in Japan, 80 years old." est ce que je vois.

That's a great idea. 😊

Must because either the store has so many compasses than interfere with all the other compasses. Or the location they are in, has a really unstable magnetic force.

They're following magnetic field lines. There's a magnet close by.

When they are next to other compasses the needles all interact. Move them apart and they will point to magnetic north. The correction you need to make for true North is written on the map you are using.

@@wjohnstevens nice 👌

There's a magnet close by and they're following magnetic field lines, not a situation you'd be in when in actual use unless you're near some magnetite. Sprinkle iron filings/dust on and around a magnet, field lines become visible.

シアノアクリレートは加水分解することがあります。確実性を担保する為に超音波溶着とステンレスボールによる圧入を選択したのでしょう。

It’s faster to use the ball

Good comment translated for English readers: "Cyanoacrylates can be hydrolyzed. In order to ensure reliability, they probably chose ultrasonic welding and press-fitting using stainless steel balls."

Compasses don't need batteries.

@@LordDustinDeWynd I agree... I have a nice Brunton pocket transit myself...

@@tubedude54 I'm jealous! 🙃😉 Got a bunch of mil-surp ones, though.

@@LordDustinDeWynd Was my fathers... he was a geologist.

Until the power goes out.

Такая трудозатрата на производство компаса, как в этом видео, как то оправдана?

@@keramzitJo , разумеется, оправдана.

​@@user-sf6pd6vi4c чем, если не секрет? Он от этого точнее, стабильнее? Чем он лучше чем произведенных массово