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Thu May 26, 2011 8:59 pm

Thinking about getting in to microscopy, have this one in mind:
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Basic Magnifications: 40X, 80X, 100X, 200X, 400X, 800X, 1000X & 2000X
Monocular 360 Degree Rotatable Head. 45 Degree Inclined Tube.
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Nosepiece: quadruple
Eyepieces: widefield WF10X/18MM & WF20X
Achromatic Objectives: 4X, 10X, 40X (spring), 100X (spring, oil)
Stage Dimensions: 4-3/8" x 4-3/4" (110x120mm)
Condenser: NA=1.25 Abbe
Focusing Control: rack & pinion
Illumination: tungsten lamp, 110V/20W (220V version available)
Dimensions: 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" x 15-0"
Weight: 8 lbs.
Mech. Stage, coarse and fine focusing, Abbe condenser, Iris diaphragm, wide-field eyepieces and achromatic objectives with 100x oil immersion lens. Overall pretty good for a couple hundred USD, will probably remove the tungsten lamp and replace with LEDs due to the heat tungsten lamps create. Binocular would be cool but adds $$$ and I'm planning on making my own camera to hook it up to the computer so I probably wont be using the eyepiece much anyway.

Not sure how they get 2000x out of this microscope, I didn't think it was possible to get useful magnification at 2000x from a compound 'scope like this even with oil immersion.
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Fri May 27, 2011 10:32 am

If you can afford it, the best illumination for a microscope is to use a fiber optic light source with halogen lamps. The lamp uses a dichroic reflector which eliminates most of the IR. The rest is removed by another dichroic filter to pass the white light and block the remaining heat. The light is then focuses into a fiber optic bundle and aimed to illuminate the subject.

I use them at work and they are great.
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Fri May 27, 2011 8:31 pm

Microscopes are amazing, just be careful you con't crush a silicate sample under the high-magnification lens, you'd be surprised how soft lenses really are when you grind them into high-temperature ceramics. :wink:
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Sun May 29, 2011 12:49 pm

what a waste of material and workmanship...

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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muhahaha.... I kinda like it... the guy is craving for a lathe and mill, that's obvious ;-) It's like he said "I'm going to make a gun in meccano parts... with my homemade meccano parts!" I appreciate the crazyness of the idea...

What is he using to solder? Arc welding? I suppose it is aluminum... I want one!

ohhhh... there's more :-D

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[edit] The wife said: There no manhood in mere elastics! I want to see bullets!
I HAZ A BANG!
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Sun May 29, 2011 2:49 pm

That is pretty epic
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cammyd32 wrote:That is pretty epic
Not really, I mean, he shot his own camera with it just to show how weak it is lol.
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LeMaudit wrote:muhahaha.... I kinda like it... the guy is craving for a lathe and mill, that's obvious ;-) It's like he said "I'm going to make a gun in meccano parts... with my homemade meccano parts!" I appreciate the crazyness of the idea...
I believe this is a commercial venture...
What is he using to solder? Arc welding? I suppose it is aluminum... I want one!
Is there any soldering/welding in it though? seems to be completely bolted together.
The wife said: There no manhood in mere elastics!
There should be elastics on your manhood but that's a different matter :)
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Sun May 29, 2011 8:40 pm

LeMaudit wrote:muhahaha.... I kinda like it... the guy is craving for a lathe and mill, that's obvious ;-) It's like he said "I'm going to make a gun in meccano parts... with my homemade meccano parts!" I appreciate the crazyness of the idea...

What is he using to solder? Arc welding? I suppose it is aluminum... I want one!

ohhhh... there's more :-D

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[edit] The wife said: There no manhood in mere elastics! I want to see bullets!
Cover me I'm reloading! No but seriously, its pretty cool.
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jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
The wife said: There no manhood in mere elastics!
There should be elastics on your manhood but that's a different matter :)


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Mon May 30, 2011 5:12 am

Not really, I mean, he shot his own camera with it just to show how weak it is lol.
Agreeably but it does look really cool, if all my guns looked like that I would make one hell of a lot of cash selling them. :D
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Mon May 30, 2011 8:55 am

Would you rather have a non-functional pretty spudgun or an ugly one that can blow a hole through steel sheet? :wink:
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Mon May 30, 2011 8:57 am

Gun freak, I would like both. I would blast the hole, then say it was the pretty one.
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