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wow Greg thank you! I sure would like to know how you learned all of that, please PM if you have a reference for me. Ohhhh, that bottom swing out is for a LENS! I was thinking for a filter, but there was a gap leftover I was puzzled by. I wish I already knew more! The retired doctor I bout this from...

Hi Greg, welcome and I will gladly take you up on your offer of telling me how to use my microscope. The one I am struggling with today is listed here, https://imgur.com/a/ns7wbwl along with my use questions - they are the photo captions. I warn you though, it is strictly newbie territory. I am curi...

Thank you, and I had deduced that I have an achromatic one because it has 1.25 printed on it and all of the brochures listing the various Nikon condensers of then list 1.25 as achromatic, every other kind is different. But I do not know if I am right or what that means or what to do with the decente...

Hi Ross, I am happy not to have to worry about that nylon gear issue too, but for me the stage had to be flipped around or the mechanical stage controls blocked the fine focus. Now, though, I really have to find the right short barrel objectives in order to clear the slide mover itself. I got it fro...

Here is one I recently acquired. I have very basic questions about it's functions and even it's type. Several basic condenser questions, wrtitten as photo captions here: https://imgur.com/a/ns7wbwl. Thanks for any answers you can give me.

Oh shoot, I forgot to mention those feet in the first one. see, now that is where one needs either good training or the courage of one's convictions because otherwise it would be easy to dismiss those as accidental marks or somesuch, which is the thinking that keeps worlds flat.

wow, very nice. What was in the rotifer one, other than the rotifer? also what scope/ cam do you use?

Have any of you ever wished you could be a fly on the wall, watching some amazing or interesting event taking place that you knew you could never be a part of? That's how I feel watching this thread right now. It's like van Leewenhouk (sic) on the wall in a contemporary lab, as far as I am concerned...

Not to beat a subject to death, but that is an amazing and inspiring video. Wow. Um, did you say the camera costs $1500, though? Not that it is the camera making such a great video, I know it's the director, right? Or the actors? ANyway bravo.

tHANKS Apo, and HANS, it is on! Race to ebay

Thank you! On my ride home this morn I was reading the 1974 Series 10 product catalog and price list, and saw that there were ones with built in transformers. Now, since reading your post, I can just say 'trafo', lol. It did take me a minute to figure that word out. Oh but even though I hope to re-h...

I wish I could get to the point of seeing a Little Star, never even heard of one. Nice. 75RR, it's either a language barrier, a Spock-and-Kirk kinda barrier, or my bedtime because we are not communicating. Thank you for answering me, I am not going to go on ebay beacuse I do not care how much they a...

And I'm still kicking myself for losing my entomological cover-slip poking pin.

Ha, thanks 75RR. You've been kicking around here for a bit, I have read posts of yours from years ago, and I tend to go for the green mandala-ish avatar when scanning a page. What is it? The highest price I ever paid for a microscope is about $40, usually less than $10. I would get nothing out of th...

LMAO deBult. You're funny.

Loquacious and over-active newbie here with a veritable tome, again and hopefully for the last time. Though I thought I had time this year to finally learn how to really use the microscopes I have collected with great enthusiasm, my 5-year plan just got scrunched into two or three months. For two ye...

A Lovely 1964 AO Series 10 Microstar with case and all other accessories; Stock Pretty work horse, a Microstar 10, with case and original optics, tools, key, oil, manual (with addendum insert), dust cover…etc. One must look closely to see any signs of use. It has been used so carefully that the powe...

What does it mean when one of the icons here is animated? I can see which posts have new replies, and which do not, but cannot figure out why some of them have the dancing symbol.

Saul that is beautiful and even suspenseful. I dig the music too.

Thanks. I wondered if that wasn't the case. I was hooked on the novelty. Now I can focus on my real microscopes lol.

Also, not sure if this is any kind of clue, but the focus mechanism, the fine focus particularly, wasn't something I'd ever encountered. It was almost web-like, in that it had super tiny strands of - brass, I guess, or something stronger - fine yellow-colored metal threads woven like fabric threads,...

Thanks, keep me in mind if you decide to sell the polarizing accessories.

Thank you Pete. I am curious about the diaphragm and all it's mini-options. It's for phase, or? Those pics are in my second link. I did look at the ebAY link which reminds me of the Amscope M500 series. I have one but not too crazy about it. On Thursday my mom (84 years old) knocked the Amscope off ...

Hi Hans, What do you have for a Microstar 10? I do know where to get a few items of interest to you. But maybe too small for you - four or five items.

Don, how do you do that? What microscope, what medium, which slides, what kind of camera...thank you.

The microscope most in need of competent rescuing. I don't know exactly what it can do, and it is currently in pieces, yet I have a burning desire to get it up and running. I think it will be really a good one for me. Because it is so rare/impossible to find information about and since I am a rookie...

There is a guy who makes them into the right sizes, and he gives out good advice and has a bunch of sets. His cover letter says: "Please consider purchasing our complete Rheinberg filter set - or even a subset. It is such a giant step up in viewing and photographing subjects. We offer both in our Eb...

Hi Scary. I agree about the tilt. It is one of the things I love so much about my Big Sexy Beast (Giant med-school 1956 Spencer two-objective monocular). It is so smooth in every way. The balance engineered in, that which enables so smooth and effortless tilting to any angle, is considerable. Maybe ...

I'm going to try it on mine right now. First I'll try that very small spanner-type screw thing on the back/bottom of the arm. What else could it be for? I'll likely end up just taking the arm off accidentally but I must try. Do you have any tips for those kind of screws, since nobody ever seems to h...

Hello, did you ever sort this out? It sounds like I have the same type of base on my Nikon S as you do. It's thin, no room for a built in illuminator (the base, that is), just the hole in a round depression. Mine is not Nikon-branded, it is Nippon Kogaku Tokyo so might be some form of S or L or.... ...