A suggestion for you that may or may not work, satisfy your goal. Try finding a small piece of paper, one that has been run thru a copy machine, that has...
It midnight and I just woke up for a min. to pay some bills. here's an Idea. Microchips. Its not that hard to get to the substrate and peel of some with a...
Why going to all the trouble associated with CrO3 containing fixatives to end with mounting in such a mediocer mountant as glycerin jelly? There are only a few...
... resolution. Like ... There don't seem to be any real convenient bargains out there in calibrated test material. The tradeoff seems to be $$$ vs. time and...
There's nothing mediocre about glycerine jelly. Together with Canada balsam it is a legacy mountant, proved to survive for a century or more. Nawaschin, as the...
Matt, For better documentation on the MRS standards, try these links. for the MRS-3: http://www.gellermicro.com/mag_standards/MRS-3-bro-lastest%20012907.pdf ...
Glen, These are not too bad for hobby work if one needs some kind of calibration tool. They won't test resolution however, as they don't have small enough ...
I just found a rather intersting article on the Geller web site talking about magnification. It mentions some of the standards and gives nice overview. It's...
Hi all, I have two 90x Heine objectives that I have never used. I put them up for sale, and a bidder asked me some questions about the condition. The metal...
Well, I'll look at the links later tonight, I wrote them in by hand due to my current email/computer set-up. I could have easily thrown in a typo. I'll check...
... I'm >sure ... They are designed for a specific purpose, and I am not familiar with that purpose. This all seems to be for electron microscopes. I am not...
I have to share this with everybody - it made my day. My wife and I were recently invited to dinner with a young Indiana (USA) couple we know, visiting friends...
Good on you, Mr. Shipley! You may have well just inspired the next Jonas Salk on his path towards solving the cancer equation, or to eliminate Alzheimer's from...
Matt, Yes, they are more oriented towards electron microscopy, but they also say they include optical microscopy. Because of this very reason is why I'm ...
good for you, glen! what better use for the scope?! i have given a few stereo scopes to kids over the years. who knows what you might set into action? one of...
Hello all, I am having trouble posting messages. For some reason they don't post. I want to contact Charles Guevara. If you see this Charles please contact...
Hi Glenn, I have bought both of them. I have 3 other Leitz stage micrometers ; so if all measure the same in my measuring eyepiece for both axis ; I would...
I've used old EPROMs for this. The old UV-erasable style has a nice clear window that you can look through with the scope to see the chip inside the package....
Wow, I just won two microtomes for $18. the referbished prices are +- $4500.00 all because the guy wouldn't ship and he set the auction to end, get this at 4pm...
I found a parasite in a friend's tortoises feces. http://www.microscopeforums.com/f6/parasite-tortoise-poo-80.html#post219 Althought it's not a microscopic...
Jake, A great buy indeed. I had a similar experience with 2 AO 820's and an IEC microtome...one lot, local and no shipping. The links below should help. ...
Hi Don, Hope you are doing well. I read a very interesting article some time back that you might reference; I think it was maybe a Micscape article? The paper...
thanks ... From: Jay Stanley <jaystanley@...> Subject: Re: [Microscope] HI guys you won't belive what I just got for $18 To: Microscope@yahoogroups.com ...
I just located the article; for any who might be interested it is linked below. H http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun04/pjso.html ... up for sale, and...
Greetings microscopy enthusiasts. I currently have a large art installation/ lab installation at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For...
Jake: You did VERY well indeed! The second 'tome is not only missing a knife, it is missing the knife-mount altogether. If you pick these up, you might ask...
Just bought what I believe are Reichert Mef objectives.I hope to use these with my zetopan. They are 4np,5np,28np,38np and 77np. The 4np and 5np are epi. Does...