... Yes, by buying 'any old prisms' (on Ebay for example) and see how they work with your existing objectives. Only one prism needed for Epi. David...
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Par Lundqvist
perlundq
Oct 1, 2007 7:47 am
Hi Yes you can do the setup by yourself but making own DICprismas will be to hard ? (much more easy to buy them on ebay) Regarding Selling the Zeiss INKO -...
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Salvatore Previtera
salvatore_pr...
Oct 1, 2007 8:42 am
David, apart from any complex optical arrangement both in transmitted and reflected light, normal or inverted scopes, the general layout of a polarized light...
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Don Williams
edfwilli
Oct 1, 2007 11:26 am
I've posted a few pictures to the Don Williams photo album showing the top lens alignment jig and how it is used. The Teflon post has a conical recess to hold...
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J. Gregory
petrographic...
Oct 1, 2007 12:00 pm
DJ, if you pull out an eyepiece and look down the tube you should see the top of the upper objective lens, which is where the intereference figure is formed. A...
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mattbrin
Oct 1, 2007 2:07 pm
I don't know that there are more variations in AO than others. They were around for over 100 years, so that might have something to do with it. Also, they...
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Jim Bosley
bosleyjr04
Oct 1, 2007 2:38 pm
TMT, Well, it's nice to know you won't be bidding against me if one comes up on eBay... Then again, SWMBO won't let me bid over $200, so I think the Nikon H...
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Henry Barwood
hbarwood
Oct 1, 2007 3:04 pm
I just got back in town, but RLM = Reflected Light Microscopy and PLM = Polarized Light Microscopy Henry Barwood Associate Professor of Science, Earth Sciences...
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Henry Barwood
hbarwood
Oct 1, 2007 3:09 pm
Cathodoluminescence, as I use it, is what is called cold-cathode Cathodoluminescence. It is basically a vacuum chamber mounted on a microscope with a high...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger
Oct 1, 2007 4:25 pm
DJ, If you can get a wave plate or a wave patel and a filter betwen the light spitter and the analyzer on the refected light part of the scope it sould do any...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger
Oct 1, 2007 4:38 pm
Don, You can break the bond of both super glue or epoxy at 350 f or with acetone for Super Glue. I use Shellec a lot for a reveraible glue too. Alcohol is its...
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Don Williams
edfwilli
Oct 1, 2007 6:19 pm
Gordon, I used nail varnish because that's what Clarke used (successfully) and I want to see how resistant it is to immersion oil. I have several other ...
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david barriball
david225418
Oct 1, 2007 7:52 pm
Hi Greg, Could you explain why a LINEAR one, could one of each do that is linear and circular. Thanks David ... From: J. Gregory To: Microscope@yahoogroups.com...
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gcouger@...
gcouger
Oct 1, 2007 7:55 pm
Don, I would condsire heating the whole mess up and using the glue sticks they put in hot glue guns or tinker with sealing wax by adding cod liver oil, bees...
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david barriball
david225418
Oct 1, 2007 8:00 pm
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/iwpolar.html this might work David ... From: Gordon Couger To: Microscope@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October...
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m42minolta
Oct 1, 2007 8:05 pm
Matt, How are AO optics compared to Leica, Zeiss, Nikon, and Olympus? I only own AO scopes and have not compared to others yet. The Achromatics are already...
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gcouger@...
gcouger
Oct 1, 2007 8:49 pm
I came across this on the MSA mail list. An electron microscope is to a greater degree than a boat a hole to throw money in. But some of like to do that. If...
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J. Gregory
petrographic...
Oct 1, 2007 9:33 pm
David, minerals go "extinct" (dark) as you rotate the stage when a mineral optic axis parallels one of the two linear pol filter axes. Extinction angles are...
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polo
dougahart2000
Oct 1, 2007 11:46 pm
What is your opinion of the danger of UV leakage from the old style AO epi-florescence scopes which have no UV shield as often seen in the modern counterparts?...
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DonH
djhmis
Oct 2, 2007 12:29 am
... Hi, In addition to this excellent answer, I would point out a more mundane and practical reason: most of the books dealing with observations of minerals...
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COURYHOUSE@...
couryhousesmecc
Oct 2, 2007 12:52 am
just the thought makes me not want to ever use one....[[]]] a message dated 10/1/2007 4:47:00 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dahart@... writes: ...
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microshaw@...
microshaw
Oct 2, 2007 3:01 am
For field work-I purchased the Boreal Prism Microscope from Edmund Scientific. It using natural light reflected from a prism, and takes standard thread ...
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David L. Jones
lokate21
Oct 2, 2007 3:28 am
Salvatore, I see I messed up my explanation about where my polarizing filters are, they are indeed one before and one after the sample. Since Im using an ...
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David L. Jones
lokate21
Oct 2, 2007 3:41 am
Greg, I've been looking for a polarizing filter from an older Olympus PME. They used a polarizing filter that would be quite easy for me to modify to fit my...
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Bob S.
v45bob
Oct 2, 2007 4:19 am
... modern ... with a UV ... Well without seeing the scope and how much light leaks out of the lamphouse, and/or know what filters are in the light path after...
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Don Williams
edfwilli
Oct 2, 2007 4:22 am
Hi Gordon, It would appear that nail varnish should be okay with immersion oil as well as the stuff I use to clean it off after use -- naptha (lighter fluid)....
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polo
dougahart2000
Oct 2, 2007 4:28 am
A typical 50w mercury burner. Everything seems tight, no leakage where none is intended, but you get the normal UV light coming from the objective bouncing off...
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Steven Born
stevenbornsfv
Oct 2, 2007 5:08 am
I have one of these prism microscopes, also. It works well. If you think about it, these are the descendants of the French-made "Drum Microscopes" of the...
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gcouger@...
gcouger
Oct 2, 2007 6:04 am
Mike, If it had a full length tube and way to use a condenser it would be a great instead of very good scope. If I did my math right it 28 mm short of 160 mm....
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stevenbornsfv
Oct 2, 2007 6:15 am
If you look in the microscope catalogs in Gordon's collection, you'll see unfamiliar Dissecting scopes which appear to be only the bottom half of a compound...
