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I asked my friend with a machine shop if we could make them but he did not have die to make this thread and said, even if he did, it is very tricky to make such a small thread. So I just bought these on ebay instead. The hex-head has a knurling so it is convenient to hold. The biggest challenge when...

The lever for moving the deviating prism between the binocular/monocular eyepiece tubes and photo tube on a Reichert Zetopan has the following dimensions:

M2x0.4 thread of length 2.5mm
3mm diameter rod for 19mm
handle of length 10.5mm
total length 31.9mm

Good cleaning job. Those scratches won't have a big effect on image quality. You need to scratch a front lens like that quite badly before the image quality start to deteriorate significantly. But the grime that was there before certainly would have an impact. So if the image quality didn't improve...

Do you know what type of adjustment the screws do when turning them for the wollaston prisms holder in the IK condenser? Do they only center the prism or also rotate it? cesarius, I have not explored the IK condenser yet, other than verifying that the watch key fits, so I am not sure, sorry. Now th...

On this set of pocket watch keys I just bought, the best fit is the #10

I have phase contrast and an IK contrast condenser carousel for a Reichert Zetopan. For the phase rings (and correspondingly on the IK condenser) there are tiny square headed screws to adjust the centring. For the information of the community the square is 1.12mm square and it can be manipulated wit...

Available:
Leitz 2.5x 170/ 45mm parfocal distance objective
Leitz 10x 170/ 45mm parfocal distance objective
four RMS female thread to M27x0.75 male thread adaptors

Thanks Viktor, I got the cloudiness cleaned up. Oddly it seemed as if a large part of the cloudiness was a residue on the exterior non-transmitting side of the prism, the one that reflects the image internally. I could not get all the residue off even with a water/IPA/Acetic Acid/detergent solution ...

Thank you Viktor. When you got inside the binocular head, what did you use to clean the fog? Just a normal water soluble lens leaner and canned air; or did you use a chemical solvent?

I have a Wild M20 with a binocular tube that I am cleaning. There is a cloudiness inside the binocular tube head's left optics. I would like to open the head on the tube side. I have removed the four small black screws on the metal piece connected to the non-focusing eyepiece tube in these two pictu...

Through VWR , the company that sells CleanTips® Cotton Wrapped Mid-Size Swab, Texwipe in my area, I contacted the manufacturer with the question Are VWR Catalog Number TWTX705, CleanTips® Cotton Wrapped Mid-Size Swab, Texwipe®, suitable for cleaning microscope optical elements like objectives, conde...

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Do Q-tips have impurities that might scratch my optics?

Yes, silica particles. Use ophthalmological-grade cotton and bamboo sticks.

Are these ophthalmological-grade:

CleanTips® Cotton Wrapped Mid-Size Swab, Texwipe

When I bought my Reichert Zetopan, it came with "The Unique Microscope Cleaning Kit" from Scogil Scientific Inc. of Raleigh North Carolina. It has "optics cleaning swabs" which I have been using to clean the optical pathway of my microscope with Foxwest Optical Lens Cleaner Cat. No 1100. I have used...

Isopropyl is good but is not particularly good as a solvent for fats or oils, which form a good portion of residues on older optics. It tends to leave a film. That can be removed with a mixture of IPA, H2O Acetic acid and dish detergent, followed by H2O and IPA as rinse solvents. The H2O, IPA, CH3C...

Is isopropyl alcohol safe to use to clean microscope lenses? Will it damage the lens coatings?

I have a Reichert Zetopan and I recently spent some time cleaning its optical pathway. Things went pretty well overall but I have some questions. The top surface of the top lens of my BPK 10X ocular has a spot that did not wipe away, see picture. I am using Foxwest Optical Lens Cleaner Cat. No 1100 ...