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Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:23 am**

Complete beginner here. This came with my microscope and I don't know what it is. The top part rotates and seems to have a thin layer of something.

Thanks,

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:50 am**

Aha! It's a rudimentary hand-section cutter - for soft stems of small diameter.
Push a small soft stem piece through one of the holes, from below. Set it to just be sticking up above the hole's side by about 1mm then turn the blade-holding part to cut a section. Place under your 'scope - in a drop of water on a slide with coverslip over.

Worth a try for a quick start!

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:56 am**

mrsonchus wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:50 am
Aha! It's a rudimentary hand-section cutter - for soft stems of small diameter.
Push a small soft stem piece through one of the holes, from below. Set it to just be sticking up above the hole's side by about 1mm then turn the blade-holding part to cut a section. Place under your 'scope - in a drop of water on a slide with coverslip over.

Worth a try for a quick start!

Thanks mrsonchus! This will help me a lot with plant stems, as you said.

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