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Not sure what you mean by remove the cartridge. I am weary of breaking something in my complete ignorance here haha. Here's a head on photo at least. Sure seems to be a BF/DF lever though nothing changes when it's switched. So it's an empty cartridge. If you had an epi set up for reflectance. your ...

Hey, is that a brightfield/darkfield lever? I put a green arrow pointing to it. I hadn't noticed that. Attached is the picture you shared with an ebay listing shown in the upper right. So can you remove that cartridge and take a picture of what you actually have. Since the back top is blocked off, a...

Do note though, that the frame you pictured does not have an epi. The reflectance axis is empty on that frame. On ebay there is someone selling the insides for a BX60 epi, but I don't know that dealer or how hard it is to put in a reflectance axis, plus I don't think that includes the filter cube t...

As mentioned before, the U-CPA with 360 Pol, the U-TAD with DIM slider, the centering objective turret, the rotating stage all make that a great purchase for that price. Do note though, that the frame you pictured does not have an epi. The reflectance axis is empty on that frame. On ebay there is so...

For info on IX, you might also try the Facebook Olympus group.

But the working distance/NA is rather different. So the angle of the divergent Nomarski condenser prism light would be different and probably not match the other side. Have you tried it?

Here's a thread: https://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11715 The rubber blocks are smelly from lots of plasticizers that can corrode metals. And didn't do much. The pinpoint stereo system vibration set-ups didn't seem to help either. There is the Veeco isolator shown he...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qyE-fHPZYk

So what would happen if you put this inside an LED lamp house that gets hot with a fanless heatsink?
Asking for a friend…

What is the SC versus the MET? I've seen METs, almost exclusively here in California. I found mention of one SC here: https://caeonline.com/buy/microscopes/l ... -sc/161662

Is it more motorized?

Looks cool: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184855122924

I'd be curious too.

It looks like the same cast frame parts. These are ebay listings that I'm referencing. The Met is missing the transmission axis, so the Polyvar 2 has more optics across the bottom in the base. Cool project:

Generally, the older DMR scopes have black lettering on the side of the stands and the newer ones red lettering. The two generations of heads will not interchange on the large DMR research scopes. In my very limited experience, the Delta systems had the tube lens in the stand and the HC put it in t...

Generally, the older DMR scopes have black lettering on the side of the stands and the newer ones red lettering. The two generations of heads will not interchange on the large DMR research scopes. In my very limited experience, the Delta systems had the tube lens in the stand and the HC put it in t...

Leitzcycler wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:10 pm

And now from Lomo Biolam we have come to this! I was sure this will happen sooner or later

I didn't guess so soon though...

I guess this is in reference to the original poster's hunt for a microscope?

On the plus side it looks to have HC optics and with an upper DIC carousel as well as a universal condenser with unknown contents. It would be useful to have close-up views of the objectives. A random guess is that this might have had phase Pete, I don't think any of the ones I have have the HC mar...

That's interesting, there is no tube lens switcher turret with different magnifications, pass-through, and Bertrand. For that trinocular, I've always seen a pass-through as a settable position.

Here's an example of the DIC turret option that goes into the objective turret:

Here's an example of no DIC turret above the objectives:

complete reflected system How would one recognize a unit configured as a reflected system vs a transmitted system? I think this one was used as transmitted light and epifluorescence. PeteM is probably noting the two lamps. The presence of the top one means there is a reflectance axis. The presence ...

smollerthings wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:29 am

Are the upper and lower Nomarski prisms unique per magnification? Am I right in thinking they are located here and here?

The top one is a polarizer slide. The bottom one is the condenser turret that may have DIC or phase contrast.

Parts labeled and images of a normal trinocular head (trino) I think that side view is showing the space needed for a DIC turret. But I labeled it as I wasn't certain. There is a unit that can be installed there if you take off the objective turret and pull off a wedge hunk of metal -- pictures show...

The trinocular head shown is meant for a laser scanning confocal unit that hooks into the back. The trinocular head has a camera on it. I think the imaging device comes with the microscope. The camera is Firewire, but the trinocular head is long reaching almost to where the lamps are. At the end of...

The trinocular head shown is meant for a laser scanning confocal unit that hooks into the back. There is a horizontal thumb knob on the right side just below the head, built into the top one-inch lid. It holds tube lenses, and a Bertrand lens option with an adjuster showing in the horizontal thumb s...

This thread show the filter cubes and the two DIC's that are in the motorized objective turret. It's a pretty cool design with a solenoid powered compensator that pushes the DIC back and forth. Totally awesome.

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Hi, This was going to be a project of mine, but narrowing down to some other projects. This is an MX80 from a silicon wafer inspection system. It has laser focusing, two DIC prisms, an AX filter cube setup. See my other posts for details on those. There is a motored turret, in fact everything is mot...

and have it work? Pretty sure the answer is no but wanted to ask. Mark If you search ebay for rms to m27 you'll find adapter rings. Physical size of the bigger objectives and their working distance is probably the main limiting factor. Of course BD objectives will probably not get any light for the...

So I found the DIC prisms. So I still don't know what the square window optic is. And the MX80 actually did have a transmission option. Didn't know that.] So in motorized nose turret, there are two DIC prisms, that a solenoid can adjust back and forth, like the manual DIC slider. They are for UM and...

So I had to open an MX80 to remove the six huge bolts at the bottom mounting it to a 30kg aluminum cast bridge that held it inside a Silicon Valley wafer inspection machine. My question is about the AX-like filter cube turret contained inside. One has an optic on the top. So it is above the illumina...

I'd like to try a set-up like this. If either of you have models for frames with I guess two layers of polycarbonate. Let me know. I'm setting up a CNC for aluminum and can use this as a test case for parts. Thanks, Ted I'm currently just using the open frames as per Rathi. It might be worth waitin...

I'd like to try a set-up like this. If either of you have models for frames with I guess two layers of polycarbonate. Let me know. I'm setting up a CNC for aluminum and can use this as a test case for parts.

Thanks,
Ted

So here's what I would think would work for bearing pads, highlighted in blue. You could cut the ring open and somehow get it to snap around, but gluing some bearing pads would probably be easiest design to test and implement the idea. I wish there was an easy way to do the reverse and mount a BH2 p...