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Wow, nice DIC slider find! Thank you for posting photos of the internal mechanism. It looks like pushing/pulling the rod slides the prism along the shear axis. Does turning the knurled knob also tilt the prism mount? Might be easiest to see what happens between crossed polarizers. Be sure to place t...

When centering either a stage or objective and you don’t have a cross hair reticule and only a scale, pick the center most point on the scale. For example, if you have a horizontal reticule (ie: scale of 1 to 10) pick the line for 5 where it crosses the horizontal and use that as your center ‘cross-...

It does take a lot of torque to start it, but then just turns off easily with fingers. The band clamp/rubber strap wrench set I used has one band about 3/4” wide and one about 1/2” wide. A bit big for objectives but worked ok, if a bit fiddly to clamp those small diameters!

The colored ring unscrews from the front. I used two small band clamps (with rubber) but leather should work too. That blue paint layer is really thin so make sure you have a good grip before breaking it free. I am not sure what the next step for clearing out the sticky grease would be.

SoftMachine, is your microscope still available? I sent a PM, not sure if it went through to you.

You are welcome.

Screws are M 3.5 x 12 mm, I was missing a couple on my recent scope and had to order them.

Every time I see nice diatoms like this I want to get a plankton net and give it a try. Beautiful!

I would also note to make sure polarizers are as flat in their mount as possible if using a sheet film and if they are not already in a glass filter mount. Slightly tilting the whole filter can help with reflections. I check polarizers (linear or CPL) outside the scope to make sure the pair I use gi...

Beautiful! Which method did you end up using?

SMfork.jpg The small slotted screw below the fork is the limit screw for the fork mounting dovetail. Turn it out most of the way and you will be able to lower the empty mounting fork all the way off it's dovetail mount on the base. This will give you access to the center stage mounting screw. A lon...

I have the same microscope and the condenser is on a dovetail that just slides out of the substage mounting fork. In your photos you already have the condenser lowered and the flip-up lens lowered with the stage raised so the condenser does not hit either the stage or microscope base as you remove i...