[Leica] Delicate Operation Completed - Sort of

[Gene Duprey]

Looks great Aram! Nice work on a very nice scope.

Gene

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> On Jun 5, 2021, at 6:48 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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