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Last update - the fine focus is freed now and the microscope is working quite nicely. Penetrating sprays and immersion in lighter fluid was a total waste of time. The only thing that helped was hammering in a improvised jig to protect the soft zinc or aluminium blocks. It looks like someone "service...

Quick update - the coarse focus is freed up and the microscope is a big hit with my daughter The fine focus is now in a bath of lighter fluid. I removed the 40x objective because it is possible to crash it into the slide on the stage and it is too difficult for a child to focus using 400x and only c...

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dechrlam wrote:Wow I was never expecting to find such a large active forum for microscopy.
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You are from the birthplace of the magnificent Wild microscopes Welcome!

Rorschach the name of a town on lake constance 20 minutes drive from here - a long way from Helsinki??

Hi Guys thanks for the great advice. I further disassembled the microscope removing the fine focus knobs and the coarse focus knobs. The fine focus does indeed have the lever that freely moves left and right. The coarse focus knob had a wavy shaped washer behind it which prevents 200 pound gorillas ...

The instruction manual say 5/94 Printed in Germany so the scope is probably from 1994 https://i.ibb.co/m8bZYGQ/IMG-1007.jpg ^ Coarse and fine focus https://i.ibb.co/qkmgmjW/IMG-1006.jpg https://i.ibb.co/pWbngw4/IMG-1009.jpg ^ I already put loads of penetrating oil spray in the dovetails https://i.ib...

Hi Hobbyst46, Thanks for the suggestions. I will get some good quality pictures up this evening European Time. Not sure about branding, but it does look a lot like a Motic F-11. The moulds for production are probably the same. The arrangement Body > Coarse Focus > Block > Fine Focus > Stage is exact...

I recently purchase a used Eschenbach Elementar Plus 34221. It has the same optics as a Kolleg SH45. Despite being listed as functioning, the stage does not move - I supect the lubircant is too old and is dried / gummed up. I removed all screws possible and tried lots of penetrating spray - Caramba ...

Wow I was never expecting to find such a large active forum for microscopy.
Glad to be here