Now that you know what it is, consider that it's probably worth more money to
the right person.

Chris.


--- In Microscope@yahoogroups.com, "reynaldguru" <carra@...> wrote:
>
> Well, I thank all of you who answered, indeed it is a lensmeter, when on the
right track I found all about it, and, sadly it wont do for what I thought I
bought it, never mind, it means I will use the old Vickers until I resell that
Zeiss and find something better. I the interim I will gobble all the info I can
find here and salivate with envy at all the fantastic pictures I saw.
> Have a great day.
> regards
> Reynald
>
> --- In Microscope@yahoogroups.com, "J. Forster" <jfor@> wrote:
> >
> > It looks to me to be some kind of purpose built microscope to do some kind
> > of mechanical test. Hardness or some other specific physical property.
> >
> > FWIW,
> > -John
> >
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> >
> > > Hi to All
> > > I am from Western Australia, in the great South Western part of it, I have
> > > a great interest in Microscopy, in the sense that I help testing pet birds
> > > for illnesses, I use a Vickers M70 an old friend, a bit long in the teeth,
> > > its a binocular compound microscope, I modified it by changing the light
> > > system with a LED one, a simple task, just replace it with the innards of
> > > a 9 LED torch, amazing but I hhave had ne problems with it and it work a
> > > charm, I use mainly 400X for my samples.lately I have acquired an odd ball
> > > microscope, the price was very low and I took a punt...
> > > it is a Carl Zeiss, but it is very odd, please see my pictures in the
> > > photos under Mysterious Carl Zeiss Microscope.when turned on it shows a
> > > green colored cross hair and a semi circular scale in degrees from 0 to
> > > 180, upon focusing the only thing I get is a small circle of very white
> > > dots smack in the center of the cross hair.it has no stage, there are 3
> > > little spike on a bar who can be moved forward, as I say, a most peculiar
> > > bit of equipment, couldn't find anything on the net either.
> > > If anyone has an idea , please help me,My brain is crunching trying to
> > > figure out what it is...
> > > Have a great day
> > > regards
> > > Reynald
> > >
> > >
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