After my friend Don gave me a microscope he had rescued from being throw away I wrote in a post about it and mentioned there about how I would like to also have a dissecting microscope (something more suitable for examining fossils & macroscopic critters etc.). Well upon reading this Gary Hurd, a long time colleague in the Creation/Evolution conflict, contacted me via Facebook and told me that if I really wanted a dissecting scope he had one I could have if I just came and got it.
So I went and got it…
It is a Bausch & Lomb 0.7x – 3x with, from what Gary tells me, a storied history of archaeology fieldwork. The base was pretty rusted (which I imagine was due to Gary’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean) but some steel-wool and some WD40 took care of most of that (as you can see).
There is however one tiny little problem with the scope (for which Gary apologized profusely) and this is where the “eventually” comes in, it lacks eye-pieces! Unfortunately the eye-pieces apparently got misplaced, so until I have some extra cash (who knows when that will happen) it will remain a very cool looking (and very heavy) paper-weight in the corner of my office.
Yours truly and Gary
Anyway, regardless of the missing bits, a big thank you to Gary Hurd for the microscope!
Soon I will have the makings of a genuine science laboratory! Bwahahahaha!!!
Also, Gary blogs over at Stones and Bones, give it a gander.
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You’re entirely welcome. That was a well traveled scope. I had it in Tabasco Mex. for work on house floor residue from the Olmec site of La Venta, and in the northern Sonora Desert to study rock art. My students used it at Saddleback College. It looks very clean compared to when you got it.
I recall using a 10X optical. 11mm as I recall, but then, I cannot recall where I put the darn things.
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