Sensitive "Restoration" of Antique Slide Holder
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:46 am
This mechanical stage is from an old cast iron Bausch and Lomb metallurgical style microscope that I bought off Fleabay as a parts scope... as it turned out, there was more good in the scope than bad so, it turned into a "restoration" - in true hoarder style, now I'm buying Fleabay accessories for *this* parts scope... at any rate...
Shown in the first pic is the stationary side of the slide holder that was bare brass yet the edges and back (where it attaches to the mechanism) were painted with the matching paint from B&L. The bare brass looks odd to me and, as a compromise ended up "blueing" it (shown in the second pic). The blueing also touched up the worn edges of the vernier scales painting. It seems odd to me that leaving this in bare brass would've been done at the factory - any opinions or rationale about this?
In the second photo, the reddish blotches at the top of the blued brass are a lighting artifact of the tiny MP camera I used.
JeffO
Shown in the first pic is the stationary side of the slide holder that was bare brass yet the edges and back (where it attaches to the mechanism) were painted with the matching paint from B&L. The bare brass looks odd to me and, as a compromise ended up "blueing" it (shown in the second pic). The blueing also touched up the worn edges of the vernier scales painting. It seems odd to me that leaving this in bare brass would've been done at the factory - any opinions or rationale about this?
In the second photo, the reddish blotches at the top of the blued brass are a lighting artifact of the tiny MP camera I used.
JeffO