Travelling Microscope

Listing ID #4350924

cast iron heavy base fitted with three leveling screws with top machined to take a travelling metallic carriage. The carriage is free to move a long scale and holds a clamping screw, which when tightened connects the carriage to a spring loaded bar. 

• precision lapped vertical and horizontal carriages with fine movement free from lateral shift or chattering. Travel horizontally 165mm and vertically 120mm.

• verniers both reading to 0.02mm or 0.01mm. 

• special rigid fixing of the vertical pillar to the horizontal carriage, ensuring true vertically even with rough usage.

• wider object platform with optical white top.

• special rust proof best quality stainless steel scales finely graduated.

• focusing of microscope tube by rack and pinion and microscope consisting of 10x eyepiece ramsden with fine glass graticule. 

• achromatic 2" or 3" focal length objective made from highest quality optical glass.

• coarse movements of vernier scale by hand and fine movements through milled head. Extended fine adjustment range 20mm for each carriage.

• index marks denote the true vertical and horizontal positions of the tube.

the instrument is furnished in epoxy finish with bright chrome plated parts, packed in a styrofoam molded box or in a plywood cabinet with dust cover.