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1880 B&L investigator in use
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:24 pm
by Radazz
Playing on a rainy day
B&L investigator
Period slide of blowfly sucking mouth parts.
The setup
Cell phone shot
Interesting plumbing
Enjoy
Radazz
Re: 1880 B&L investigator in use
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:30 pm
by MicroBob
Hi Radazz,
beautiful instrument and great photo! The quality of the micro photo is completely on the same level as what is shown here from much more modern instruments - very astonishing.
The microscope design looks fairly modern. I have a Seibert microscope of the same age and it has a parallelogram guide for the tube, not the best solution and soon replaced by dovetail guides. What I don't understand is what keeps the tube from falling off the guide on your microscope - can you explain this?
Bob
Re: 1880 B&L investigator in use
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:12 pm
by Hobbyst46
Beautiful photo, magnificent and elegant microscope.
Re: 1880 B&L investigator in use
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:15 pm
by Radazz
MicroBob wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:30 pm
Hi Radazz,
beautiful instrument and great photo! The quality of the micro photo is completely on the same level as what is shown here from much more modern instruments - very astonishing.
The microscope design looks fairly modern. I have a Seibert microscope of the same age and it has a parallelogram guide for the tube, not the best solution and soon replaced by dovetail guides. What I don't understand is what keeps the tube from falling off the guide on your microscope - can you explain this?
Bob
Hi, Bob,
I’m not quite sure what you mean. The elevation track on the back of the tube locks into the track on the focus block.
It can only move up and down with the knob.
Jim
Addendum: I see what you mean. The piece between the focus block and the tube is attached to the block, and locks into the track on the back of the tube.