Not much to report for the day. it was busy at work.. then I seen the evening working on a surprise xmas gift. for Gabe. It’s a 1949 Karl Zeiss trinocular microscope. (I can talk about it here now.. since I’m blogging several days after xmas)  

Gabe works with high end microscopes every day at his work as a cancer biology grad student. He loves what he does and  he  told us that he’d love to have a microscope at home to show friends the magic that lives in little things all around us.  It turns out that my good friend Scott also loved microscopes. He had several and before he died in August of 2021 he’d asked for our help in finding good  homes for all his cool science gear including his pride and joy, this beautiful old Zeiss scope. .. Scott and my friend Dave took a couple of Scott’s microscopes including the Zeiss.. but he didn’t have a use for it. When Gabe told me he was looking I asked Dave and he very graciously let me have it.    I’m now working to get it working. I found an illuminator bulb (6V 15W) in china and ordered it. I also found some modern LED light sources and ordered them. I am now cleaning up and aligning the device as best I can to make sure it will work for Gabe. I hope he likes it..

I think of Scott every day.. and think/hope it would make him happy to know that Gabe will have this scope and use it. 

 

Nite all, nite Sam

-me