DR. Williams, I hope your wife's friend responds well to treatment. It is a serous disease. If caught early it usually responds to treatment. It is spreading...
David, I question your judgement when you recommend distilling solvents so enthusiastically to people not trained or equipped. Distillation of any of the...
In message <ch467k+3a85@eGroups.com>, Aaron <nghy_1@...> writes ... Aaron, Show me where I actually recommended doing so and I will agree with you. I...
A friend is looking for a 30mm OD AO/Spencer pol eyepiece to complete his 1950's Spencer scope - If you have such a beast, and are willing to part, with it...
I found the exchanges very interesting and was about to suggest alternatives to getting over the constant boiling mixture problem. Benzene is terrible stuff. ...
A better way might be to suspend a test tube full of ice and water in the neck of a small mouth bottle. The bottle could be put in a bowl of hot water. Such a...
Hi, I focus the image, narrow the cone of light with the field diagphram (the knob controlling the width of the beam of light at the light source), focus the...
And I hope you don't. The vapour cleaning method is only good for unmounted lenses, mirrors, flats and so on. Never do it with an assembled lens. If anyone is...
I was not suggesting an extended stay in a mini-vapor degreaser. What I was suggesting was the equivalent of breathing gently on a lens to moisten it with...
In message <ch52kk+4nlo@eGroups.com>, latigerlilly <latigerlilly@...> writes ... It could mean that the condenser is one optimised for use with low/mid ...
Hello. Actually I'm pre-beginner as you'll see below. I would be most appreciative if anybody could take the time to answer a couple of questions I have. I am...
Hello! I have recently scored a couple of old B&L scopes, one of which is a beater, from e-Bay. Both are missing parts, but the prices were pretty good. They...
Hi, I have a number of B&L monocular eyepieces, if that is what you need. I will send the list to you next week after I finish my chem II final, that is if I...
Don H
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Hello Don! Thanks for the quick response. The eyepiece tube on the old beater measures 26mm, a bit larger than on the rest of my B&L scopes. This could create...
Hi, I like the Heliozoans. What about some details of illumination, objectives, eyepiece and so on? Don W [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
A good microscope dealer should offer you some instruction and/or a free instructional manual/book. I told the dealer who sold me a microscope that I am a...
Contacting the folks a the McCrone Group www.mccrone.com would be a good way to find when course work was availed. I am sure that they will be able to...
Without oiling the condeser to the bottom of the slide you can't get the full cone of light from the condeser to the objective. Depending on the condeser and...
Hello LM, Some of your questions are not very clear, the replies seem to reflect that. So let me put my two cents in: However, with the high power objective ...
.Hi, .I like the Heliozoans. What about some details of illumination, objectives, eyepiece and so on? .Don W Well, I use an Old East German made Jena Val...
... ,Found your homepage. Superb photos. ,Where have you been hiding all this time? (or was I asleep!) ,David I have posted a little bit off and on! Still...
In searching eBay, I turned up the following chemical supplier: CHEMSAVERS INC with a user ID of lauram300 There have been a number of posts about the...
Is there any "standardization" at all between different manufacturers PC objectives and PC condensers. For example,(in 160mm tube length) would Olympus PC...
In message <chbnlb+id1o@eGroups.com>, Charlie <sberk5@...> writes ... I have a Biolam (Lomo) phase set which is quite incompatible with my Zeiss phase...
Dave, Meaning that you can't find one annulus in the Lomo condenser that fits any one of the Zeiss objectives? Damn! I had hoped that perhaps one or two of the...