Leica DMLS fine drive repair

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attoampere
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Leica DMLS fine drive repair

#1 Post by attoampere » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:33 pm

Does anyone know how to repair the finedrive on a Leica DMLS microscope?

thanks in advance
atto

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Re: Leica DMLS fine drive repair

#2 Post by PeteM » Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:37 am

Perhaps someone will have experience.

What little I can offer, having replaced a power supply in a DMLS, is that when looking up into the focus mechanism it looked to be a simple and robust affair. The two DMLS I have are still focusing fine after all these years - perhaps a testament to the basic design. A guess is that it would be fairly straight forward to tear into it and re-lubricate it if hardened grease is the problem. Another wild guess is that you'd have to find a donor scope if something like a rack or pinion is stripped.

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Re: Leica DMLS fine drive repair

#3 Post by Micromicro » Sat May 18, 2019 10:48 pm

Hi
I am having a similar issues on several Leica DME scopes? How did you end up fixing your issue?
Thanks!
Mike

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