Charles Guevara <icecilliate123@...> wrote: "Thanks for the terrific 'web-resource: buyersguide content ' you have shared with all, 'germpore'. Sorry to say I...
I have read much about the 'big 4' over the last 3 years and was persuaded to go for one of them originally. Now with more 'kit' under my belt I think of the...
... Hi, I think it's much ado about nothing, really. A friend of mine, a long time and very experienced microscope machinist, has long said that Reicherts...
Hi All, I spent some time examining P angulatum by viewing alternately with a zeiss phase neofluar 100x 1.3 & a Leitz EF 100x 1.25. apl 1.4 condenser oiled to...
I feel you are quite correct Don. I get the impression that a number of newcomers to the group are drawn to microscopy through an interest in aquatic...
My Zeiss Standard has a built-in 10W/6V illumination system, controlled by the rheostat on my scope. This gives me pretty much all the light I need for bright...
Mike: I have owned one for years and would be happy for a look at a manual or a photocopy of one also. Sometimes you think you know everything until you delve...
Hello and 'all the best', DON! Rather than 'put words in others minds in THIS FORUM', perhaps YOU could specifically : 1) say you visited ?'germpores'??...
I need a Nikon Filar Micrometer manual also I'd also be delighted to pay for a photocopy Steve StevenBorn@... ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hi Ron, it is very hard to judge resolution on basis of a diatom slide. Basically, you either see the structure or you don't, contrast on such an image is hard...
Hello Sandy and Steve, With both of you owning a Nikon Filar, you can attest to the quality and accuracy attainable with the added vernier. Unless someone on...
During the 60's and 70's, the large(r) Zeiss frames (WL, Universal, Phomi)were (at least in Europe) the top of the line and unaffordable. Almost as good as...
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Ebay 330231011727. Have a close look at the pictures... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better...
Thank you, Peter ('germpore'), Yvan, everyone who offered insight/historical info, and opinions regarding 'tier classification of microscopes'. Almost 'an...
Il ressemble au vendeur a les images fausses vers le haut pour cette enchère. I hope Bable Fish translated this to some that resembles: It looks like the...
Hi Charles, A lot depends on where you live. The same brands aren't available in the US that are in the UK and EU. I sing this same song over and over. Because...
There's a facility in Ebay where you can generate a new auction from a previous one. It looks like they did this from a centrifuge auction, but forgot to...
Hello Gordon and group, it's incredible how much of 'technical intrumentation' gets eventually pushed into rarified strata of 'obsessed coniseurs'. Then...
In reference to how long a microscope might remain in good condition, ready for use, and desired by its owner; it seems to me that we are luckier than hobby or...
According to 'the Yahoo search the web' click..: "Biology in the School", 1937, London, W.Heinemann! The microtech texts came after this??? As we say:...
I have seen some "educational" or "tabletop" SEMs that, combined with a PC, might be practical for amateurs. IMO, a research type is really beyond all but...
correspondents, ...yes, thanks you for a most interesting but less than illuminating (NPI)thread. ...from a previous thread here (I think), I was under the...
Hi John, Having neither riches nor space I shan't be going down this road. Surely this is a technology too far for the amateur at present? Also would it be any...
I sometimes see identical AO cat 180 series eyepieces without the AO brand/label and marked only with the no. Can someone educate me as to the history here?...
Check out ebay 290225999015 , look at the last pic, enlarged of the eyepieces, looks like AO 10x wf but marked cat 138 or 139.... It's not on Neeley's eyepiece...