Dissecting scopes
Ellen Hornig (Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:23:09 PST)

I'm sure it matters how critical your applications are. In my case, I was
told the prior owner was a "defense contractor", so who knows what they did
with it....but I can say that for my purposes, which are mostly to have a
good time and (eventually) learn to take pictures, it's 'way more than good
enough. I do plan to take apart that which can and should be taken apart
and clean it, one of these days - the eyepieces are a little dusty (so
thanks, Tim, for the advice about cleaning).

Today I studied the edges of my fingernails. I would recommend that
gardeners *not* do this. It can be alarming. At least I didn't see little
wiggly things.

Ellen

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Chernoff, Ellen A. G. <echernof@iupui.edu>wrote:

Tim Eck is right that it is not easy to abuse this kind of scope with
ordinary care, but if it was used in a microlithography lab where they
etch silicon wafers with hydrofluoric acid, there isn't an unetched
piece on the scope. And student scopes have the damndest things done
to them.
--Ellen C.

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