[Leica] Delicate Operation Completed - Sort of

[Aram Langhans]

Well, I finally got my Nikon scope put back together.  It is kludged on 
one side due to a bent and broken shaft and stripped threads on the 
shaft and coarse focus knob, but this was not a beauty contest.  I had 
it back together 4 times.  Each time the focus worked when it was in 
pieces but then the fine focus would not work when it was assembled.  I 
took it apart again and played with it, then repeated the assembly and 
it did not work.  I finally got it to work this AM.  Not sure what I 
did, but I tested it at each stage of the assembly and it worked.  For 
how long I am not sure, but I am celebrating anyway.

The good side:

Nikon Scope Done-4238 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Nikon+Scope+Done-4238.jpg.html>

The bad side:

Nikon Scope Done-4240 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Nikon+Scope+Done-4240.jpg.html>

The ugly focus knobs.  I can't put on the trim piece because the fine 
focus knob wobbles and would hit it.  I  also had to drill a series of 
holes in the knobs for new set screws to make it hold together.

Nikon Scope Done-4239 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Nikon+Scope+Done-4239.jpg.html>

A 400x image of onion root tip

Nikon 40x Plan-6967 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Nikon+40x+Plan-6967.jpg.html>

A 1000x oil image of onion root tip.  6 photo blend for more depth of field.

Nikon 100x Plan-6969-Edit (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Nikon+100x+Plan-6969-Edit.jpg.html>

I think the images are pretty good for an old scope.  I will try not to 
look through the Zeiss scopes at the lab I will be working in this summer.

Aram

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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson