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 | | From: | Andy Resnick | | Subject: | Q: Zeiss ACM | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:27:43 -0500 |
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 | I inherited this beast of a scope when I got here, it was covered in
dust and sitting forlornly in a corner. In the process of disassembling
and cleaning it, I discovered what the random parts floating around the
lab went to. Some relevant paperwork refers to a 'Zeiss ACM' scope, but
I can find no record of this model anywhere in Zeiss's website. It also
has a Zeiss III RS fluorescence adaptor, phase rings, a full set of DIC
compensators, and lots of other goodies. It's a fixed-stage scope; the
upper half is attached via a massive rack and pinon track to focus.
"huge" is an understatement of this thing.
Any information (dates of manufacture, user manuals- hey, I found a full
set of drawings to my comptometer online!, etc. etc.) would be
appreciated. Thanks!
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Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
CWRU School of Medicine
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| | From: | Gordon Couger | | Subject: | Re: Q: Zeiss ACM | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:14:38 -0600 |
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| A goggle search makes me think it may one of the Axiovert
inverted scopes. Do a goggle search for
Zeiss Axiovert microscope
and see if that looks like your scope.
It sounds like it set up for viewing tissue cultures and such.
Inverted scopes are not very popular but if you have use or one
it is a great tool and it sounds like you have the parts to do
it right.
If it is the scope I think it it. The reason you don't see it in
Carl Zeiss catalogs is it was not made by them but by their east
German parent Zeiss aus Jenna that reboot after WWII and the
west had taken most the good minds and the Soviets moved the
machines that were in working shape and all the workers they
could catch to what is now St. Petersburg. The East Germans
rebuilt the plant from what was left and were back in business
pretty soon making almost the same quality scopes as before. I
the last few years the quality suffered when the whole mess was
going broke but they made pretty good to great stuff most of the
time.http://world.altavista.com/ When we got in a spending war
with the lack of capital made everything in the east block tough
After nearly 50 years before be reunited with Carl Zeiss west
and shut down the production of as Jenna scopes.
If it is a Zeiss aus Jenna scope one of our members Kevin
Sunley has chased
http://www.science-info.org/micro/docs/zeiss/Zeiss-ZeissAusJenna%20docs%20and%20part.htm
Unless you can read Germans I would use Bablefish on
http://world.altavista.com/
Good luck,
Gordon
Andy Resnick wrote:
> I inherited this beast of a scope when I got here, it was covered in
> dust and sitting forlornly in a corner. In the process of disassembling
> and cleaning it, I discovered what the random parts floating around the
> lab went to. Some relevant paperwork refers to a 'Zeiss ACM' scope, but
> I can find no record of this model anywhere in Zeiss's website. It also
> has a Zeiss III RS fluorescence adaptor, phase rings, a full set of DIC
> compensators, and lots of other goodies. It's a fixed-stage scope; the
> upper half is attached via a massive rack and pinon track to focus.
> "huge" is an understatement of this thing.
>
> Any information (dates of manufacture, user manuals- hey, I found a full
> set of drawings to my comptometer online!, etc. etc.) would be
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
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| | From: | Andy Resnick | | Subject: | Re: Q: Zeiss ACM | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:54:54 -0500 |
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| Gordon Couger wrote:
> A goggle search makes me think it may one of the Axiovert inverted
> scopes. Do a goggle search for
> Zeiss Axiovert microscope
> and see if that looks like your scope.
Oops, sorry there- nope, it's an upright. The nameplate says "West
Germany". I should post a picture somewhere- I've never seen anything
like this.
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Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
CWRU School of Medicine
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| | From: | Kevin Cunningham | | Subject: | Re: Q: Zeiss ACM | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:24:51 GMT |
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"Andy Resnick" wrote in message
news:crm4ds$b2a$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu...
> Gordon Couger wrote:
>
>> A goggle search makes me think it may one of the Axiovert inverted
>> scopes. Do a goggle search for
>> Zeiss Axiovert microscope
>> and see if that looks like your scope.
>
>
>
> Oops, sorry there- nope, it's an upright. The nameplate says "West
> Germany". I should post a picture somewhere- I've never seen anything like
> this.
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>
> --
> Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
> Department of Physiology and Biophysics
> CWRU School of Medicine
> tanspose 'op' for mail
Sounds like a type of Universal made in the late 70's to early 80's, in some
versions both the stage and head could focus. More complexity than you
need. As with any Universal it could take just about anything made at the
time, metallurgical stages, conventional stages, reflected light objectives,
on and on. This 'scope was for the person who needed something different.
The head focus was to accomodate heavy met. stages.
Kevin Cunningham
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