Re: Servicing a Swift FM-31
- From: shiraz14 <shiraz14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:22:46 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 12, 6:01 pm, UKoncology <UKOncol...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11 Dec, 20:21, Kevin Cunningham <sms...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 11, 7:52 am, UKoncology <UKOncol...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Has anyone any advice on adjusting the stage travel on this scope,
please?
It works just fine, and is surprisingly good for an ultra-portable,
but currently brings to focus at the extreme of focus adjustment. I'd
like to adjust the rack and pinion so that focus is achieved nearer
the middle of the adjustment range. Thought I'd ask first, in case
removal of the cover of the r&p is likely to provoke a flying spring
problem. If anyone has stripped doen one of these, I'd appreciate any
tips.
Thnx, HJ
I'm not sure I've done a 31 but Swift is One Of Those Companies. I
did a bunch some years back, all the same, but they were built by
different companies and didn't even use the same light bulbs. Same
model number though. Swift has never actually built a microscope,
they just ask for bids, low bid wins.
Are you really sure you want to make these changes? Most microscopes
are designed so that focus will occur in the last 5% of vertical
travel. That's so it's harder to damage the high NA objectives by
colliding with the stage. Usually if you have to make that drastic a
change you will have to re-machine the back focus area, that's not
that easy to do, you need a good machine shop and it helps to have a
couple of microscopes so if you screw up the first one, a 50-50
chance, you go on to the next one.
Are you sure you want to do this?
Kevin Cunningham
SMS
On reflection, Kevin's last question is indeed very sound advice! The
answer is - only if it is straightforward. And they are quite
expensive! (though mine wasn't)
The FM-31 is a strange beast - an inverted portable about 7" long x2
x5. The overall design resembles a Macarthur but is quite different,
and there are no related designs that I have seen. The slide is viewed
inverted - cover slip down - and focus achieved by raising and
lowering the stage. The total extent of travel is only a couple of
mm, and this is clearly intended, as there are a couple of black lines
on the moving sections indicating the limits.
BTW - these are quite serious instruments - well worth picking one up
if the opportunity arises. Optically, they are rather good, and better
than any of the traditional Swifts that I have tried, so the notion
that they are manufactured by someone else is interesting. They are
pleasingly solid, and very well engineered, but not in the same
league, of course, as a Nikon model H, though much more affordable.
Thanks for reminding me of my limitations, Kevin - I shall take your
wise advice and leave it alone!
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