3D Printing Projects:
Design, Printing, Implementation

 Project

Updated 2/3/19

 

      
 The new dark field
      adapter I bought for our high powered trinocular microsope had
      to be adapted to fit, since it was made for another model. This
      would normally have to be done on a lathe and milling machine
      in a machine shop. But the 3D printer had one done in an hour
      and a half!

      
Click on thumbnails
      below for larger view:

      

        

          
 
          
 Solidworks
            drawing of the adapter. Machining this out of a bar of aluminum
            would have taken me many hours, and a lot of labor.
 
        
      

      

        

          
 
          
 The
            Condenser is here installed in the adapter. It concentrates a
            beam of light from underneath the specimens on the microscope
            slide by illuminating them from the sides rather than below as
            a standard condenser does. This is called "Dark Field Illumination".
            The photos are very dramatic.
 
        
      


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