Hey Charles, nice Chapman kit! We haven't had the red cases since the late 80's, the company that made them went out of business but yours looks to be in excellent condition.
Kurt M, thank you for posting a link to our website! We're a very small company (there's less than 15 of us here) so recommending our products online makes a big difference to us because I only have a small ad budget. I got a lot of referrals from this website so I traced them back and found the link you posted.
A couple years ago we came out with the 5575 Master set that has 51 screwdriver bits, Phillips, all the slotted bits, inch & mm hex, Star (Torx) etc. It's our best selling set to the microscope/dental/lab/gunsmithing market because it has all of our hollow ground parallel sided slotted bits and the new short extension & spinner which gives you more control when working on delicate fasteners.
You can use the code
microbe to save 10% on the Master Set and we'll include a free two tone red, blue, black, or orange electroplated ratchet. If you don't specify orange will be included, and the code is good until 7/8.
http://chapmanmfg.com/products/master-kit-5575
Are there any screwdriver bits/tools that we don't currently make that are necessary for microscopes? Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks again!
Joel Camassar
Marketing at Chapman MFG
joel@chapmmanmfg.com
[quote="Charles"]Finished up on the new M20 addition. Initial check revealed that everything functions as it should...a real surprise! Did a minor break down taking off all optics and lamp. Removed all the stickers. The large one on the top wasn't bad but a couple of smaller ones towards the bottom of the limb took a bit of time. Cleaned, polished and lubed everything up, cleaned the optics and reassemble it. I decided to make this primarily a phase scope, so I swapped the 1.30 flip top condenser on it for the phase condenser I put on the M20 EB, which has the 6 fluotars and therefore is a better match. I already had a four objective turret with 10x, 20X, 40X and 100X phase objectives on it. I also needed a binocular head, but I have two spare M20s which I can take parts from, which had a binocular head, although it has badly fogged prisms inside. I was able to open the head up to get to the prisms and they cleaned up real good. Next problem was the bulb in the lamp was burned out but as fortune would have it, I had received four extra hard to find bulbs in one of my previous Wild M20 purchases. So put the one of the spare bulbs in and connected to power...and it worked!