Microscope Usage Dont

Tips on Microscope Usage. Here are some tips if you are using a microscope: Microscope Don'ts.

Microscope Don't

Tips on Microscope Usage

Here are some tips if you are using a microscope.

• Don't allow dust and dirt to settle on the microscope.
• Don't carry the microscope by the arm.
• Don't use alcohol on the microscope.
• Don't expect too great a range in the fine adjustment.
• Don't take the fine adjustment apart.
• Don t bring the objective into contact with the cover glass.
• Don't fail to focus up before turning the nosepiece unless you know the objectives are parfocal.
• Don't forget that high powers have short working distances.
• Don't focus down with the eye at the eyepiece.
• Don't fail te secure good, even illumination.
• Don't drop the objectives and oculars.
• Don't try to take an objective apart.
• Don't try to work with dirty lenses.
• Don't try to clean them with a dirty cloth.
• Don't fail to clean oil from an immersion lens immediately after using.
• Don't try to work with an immersion lens when there are air bubbles in the oil.
• Don't use high powers when low ones will do.
• Don't use higher oculars than necessary.
• Don't expect a lens to work at its r/est unless used on a cover thickness, and with a tube length, for which it is corrected.
• Don't shut one eye.
• Don't get discouraged if desired results do not come immediately.

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