Posted on 06/06/2009 6:20:58 PM PDT by djf
Yesterday, I was at a surplus store and came across a microscope.
It is a Swift's Collegiate Series SCM-12, the light is still perfect.
I have no slides but contacted a hobby store and tomorrow will pick up a box.
So my question is very general. I had a cheapo plastic one as a kids, but that was decades (and more decades!) ago. I am curious about hints and tips for successfully looking at the tiny world around us. My personal blood, water samples, stains, preparing and preserving slides, anything you know to help a person begin this would be appreciated!
Both ebay and edmund’s scientific sell prepared slides.
Spaghetti stains are fascinating.
I took a microbiology class a couple of years ago & we learned how to smear, stain & preserve slides. You might buy a microbiology textbook to learn how. It was fun!
Well now you have made the list of suspected biological right wing terrorist
Just real glad to hear your hobby isn’t colonoscopy.
Take a quick walk in the woods with a few test tubes, small ones.
Gather water from various sources. Ponds, puddles, stream shore.
I love looking at little living creatures.
Don’t look at me!
I couldn’t tell ya the difference between an E. Coli and a Tetanus bugger!
Just don’t look at your food...
In 6th grade or so, we took a jar of tap water, put a few blades of grass into it, and let it sit for a few days. Then we looked at the water, and it was full of all kinds of little swimmys. (I didn’t continue in the biological sciences!)
Bookmarked!
And good ideas all!
I just thought it might be interesting, turns out it was a dam good deal. I paid 40 bucks for it.
Here, it’s listed for almost 200.
http://www.microscopesnewandused.com/item166781.ctlg
As a home brewer, I’m also interested at looking at the little yeastie beasties!
In fact I’m getting ready to pitch my yeast for a new 5 gallon batch of Stout.
I second that. It doesn't take high power, either. 20X-40X ... even 10X will reveal marvels of the commonplace.
My father was a professor of histology, my mother worked in the Univ of Minn. histology lab for 20+ years preparing slides of tissue. (it’s where she met my dad). Unfortunately I’m an airline pilot and can’t help.
Did you ever read my colonoscopy thread
Did they find your beeber?
I’ve seen only a few of those in pawn shops.
tsa took it away
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