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Congratulations! You can use the Heine condenser for brightfield, darkfield and phase.

That looks sweet! Looks like it was hardly used and great condition.

Of your options, I would prefer 10X 20X 40X 60X. I rarely use the 4X.

Congratulations on your new arrival. Have fun with it.

Usually it's the last two or three leaves which are difficult to slide into place. After you have done a couple, it's not that difficult. My way is to lay the leaves in while it is in the open position. The last three, need to be slid under the ones already in place and getting the ends to drop into...

The simplest way is use a plastic bag. After finishing using the microscope, put it in the bag, evacuate all or as much of the air possible, put in your silica and then seal the bag.

Try holding a piece of paper under the lens and raise and lower it, until you see it come in focus. That will give you an estimate of what height you will need.

Hi Doron, That optovar can attach to the GFL as well as all the Standards 14-WL as well as the inverted. The PH setting is the bertrand lens. Some optovars even have and analyzer which can be flipped in and out of the light train. The ones with the analyzer has a small lever in the back. Here are pi...

You should first ensure the optical/light train is aligned..Kohler or critical illumination has been setup. If all of the objectives are the same make/brand, they should be parfocal. If they are parfocal, you should use your 10X objective to focus on a specimen and then rotate the 40x into view and ...

on my 600 condenser, the flat part of the optic is up.

mckay3d, Very nice. They look identical to mine...look at the first photo in this post.

Most Diatomaceous earth has been processed by acid cleaning, heating and grinding to uniform size and most have non-diatomaceous earth fillers added. So different brands will differ with how much diatoms are in there. When there are diatoms in the sample, most are broken. I have a DE pool filter and...

The first option, although more expensive, is the best since you can adjust the tube to be parfocal. Both come up on ebay now and then.

Some do offer returns. Always ask the seller.

viktor j nilsson wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:22 pm

The OP did not mention price,

He said 800-900 euro.

On eBay, there are some 40X and 100X Zeiss Phase Neofluar objectives available for a decent price. Just search for Zeiss Neofluars.

Big thanks to everybody for very interesting suggestions For the budget , I would say 800 - 900euro for the scope then I will be glad if I could find additional parts easily the Leitz/Zeiss and Olympus BH.. seem interesting for me The budget should have been the first piece of information you offer...

Next might be the Zeiss line, especially in Europe as noted above. The "Standard" model stands are mechanically reliable, but it's hard to find stands (the Zeiss WL, Standard 18 , etc.) with the removable nosepiece option -- and even harder to find affordable spare nosepieces. A six hole turret rec...

MicroBob wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:30 am

As long as it is Zeiss West/Standard system and not Zeiss Jena...

Yes, indeed.

I would also say Neofluars will give you the most bang for the buck and often can be found for around $100.

Most Zeiss stages will fit your Zeiss Universal/Photomicroscope stand. The main thing is you need the stage holder which clips onto your focus block. Here is one on ebay with the holder: For $90 plus shipping with the holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Microscope-Stage-w-Holder-Zeiss/324334460790?hash...

I am not familiar with Nikon microscope systems but everyone seems to be calling this a epi DIC system, but it has a DIC condenser for transmitted light and a separate transmitted light phase condenser. So is this both epi and transmitted DIC?

I will have to break it out of storage and take a look at the stage. The stage did come with the scope is specific for the inverted and probably does have different structure to allow for the objective clearance. The extenders are DIC holders with DIC slides.

The Black WL is decently priced for what it has on it. Rotating stage runs about $150-200, each of the Phase Neofluars run about $100-150, the Phase condenser with 1-2-3 phase and darkfield would run about $200, the rest of the stand with focus block, lighting, binocular head with eyepieces another ...

It is a 5 objective turret.

I have a 20X 1212and 100X 1214 dark Phase objectives

I think I definitely want to go the used route, so will keep reading and researching as there does seem to be some risk in used if you don’t know what you are looking for. On that note, are there reputable used microscope dealers out there that take some of the risk out of the equation for a newbie...

What objectives are those? Would regular Zeiss objectives have fit without the cutting? Here is my Zeiss Inverted and the objectives can be turned without hitting the bottom.

Great you got the proper model and date. I get my Zeiss information from a book by Lawrence Gubas. He had a picture of the A stand but did not have the B stand. In the book he states they are very similar but the B is bigger than the A. So I took the serial number for the A stand which shows 1924. T...

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