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g4lab
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Post by g4lab »

Picture seven is a micro forge for fabricating glass micropipettes to puncture and inject cells. It has a dark field illuminator pointing horizontally. There is a stereo microscope which is missing.

Six is a discussion/teaching bridge that allows two people to look through the same microscope.

Five has a focusing telescope that is probably from a camera adapter but could be from any number of instruments too. It also has on the right a monocular head for a pol scope with a Bertrand lens

The rearmost item in two is a camera adapter for a Zeiss surgical microscope. It fits onto a beam splitter.

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Post by Pau »

1- Zeiss turret condenser, surely for phase contrast. It has a very unusual bajonet mount.

2- From front to rear two some kind of epi illuminators, an incomplete camera adapter with splitter prims (Zeiss?) and the Z Opmi adapter that g4lab says

3- some filters (the two front ones seem Zeiss Neutral density ones) one PZO eyepiece and a focusable eyepiece likely from the Zeiss black camera adapter in 2, two very old condensers, the second plane one seems adapted for Leitz (may be for darkfield)

4- some diaphragms, the two front facing ones seem from the base of Zeiss microscopes (field diaphragm)

7- I've never seen one nor even knew about its existence, thanks g4lab for the ID. :shock:
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Post by g4lab »

You don't see microforges as often anymore. They are replaced by automated "pullers" some of which have lasers to heat the glass.
The microforges were always very expensive and the pullers are even more expensive. Apparently the pullers being automated yield a more uniform product and with less labor and little or no skill required.

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Post by Mr.Stone »

Thank you G4lab and Pau :)

Some of these things have zeiss written on them, and most of the parts i have are either of zeiss , leitz or wild. My problem is that i dont know too much about microscopes in general. So im not sure how to use these things.
In the wooden box these came out of there are more bits and pieces that would likely complete some of these items, but if i had to post a picture of all the spare parts it would be alot.
I have to get rid of most of these as its taking up alot of space, so if anyone has some use for these please let me know.

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