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Very nice microscope. As for the manufacturing date, I can give you the numbers and dates of my own Olympus:
Body number 262933: july 67
Body number 305097: march 71

Excellent buy. I have one just like that as my main instrument. It is very flexible, handling both short barrel and long barrel, preferrable on different objective turrets, of course. I use mine for bright field with long barrel objectives, but also for phase contrast with LOMO short barrels. The ph...

Some of my old Zeiss eyepieces developed delamination around the edges. The remedy was to open up the eyepiece, accessing the delaminated group, and aplying a bit of immersion oil on the edge. The oil seeps by capilarity into the delaminated space. The oil drop should be located as to seep from one ...

Difficult to tell. Old Zeiss eyepieces are prone to delamination, mostly near the edges. But if this is the case, there is a partial remedy: dissassemble the eyepiece (a quite straightforward operation) and wet the sides of the delaminated elements with good quality immersion oil. It will seep by ca...

Hello Bob, I like to observe the diatoms live, but also make permanent slides, either with Pleurax or with Naphtrax. I make strew slides, since I don´t have the ability to select and arrange them. My sources are the Atlantic coast of Bahia (13°S 38°w) and the streams and lakes of the Pirenees and th...

Hello everybody, I started this hobby about 60 years ago (I`m 75), but only after retiring have I been able to dedicate significant time to it. Making diatom slides, recovering used microscopes and testing /evaluating objectives and eyepieces, microscope technologies and history describe most of my ...