Posted by
Craig Brideau on
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The women's hair band trick everyone has mentioned works great.
Another thing to enforce is proper clean-up discipline. I personally
teach everyone the correct method for cleaning up after themselves and
enforce the 'clean up PROPERLY' when you are done rule.
Another good thing is to use thicker oils. They run less. Type B is
essential for inverted scopes as it is much thicker than type A. I
have also used type 37 on heated lenses which is thicker still. For
the Cargille brand it is possible to mix these three types together
with no chemical harm, although you will probably have some slight
degradation in optical performance of the oil if large amounts are
mixed together.
Craig
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Eric Marino <
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> We put felt rings over our objective and that keeps all of the oil off the
> nosepiece. If the diameter is similar to the Zeiss objectives I will send
> you a couple.
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> Eric Marino
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> Hi
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> Our facility have a few confocals and wide-fields, and despite how many
> reminders we send, or how many notices we put up, we haven't solved the
> problems of some users using too much immersion oil and causing very messy
> objectives.
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> Zeiss sell "immersion suction rings" which are useful on our Zeiss, but
> we've got two Leica SP5s, which tend to be the messiest. Does anyone have a
> solution for messy objectives?
>
> Thanks!!
> Ki
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