LOMO Biolam: Working Soviet laboratory microscope, 1973

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This microscope was my mom's. She was a biologist in the 70s through the late 80s. Because I didn't know a lot about microscopes before I inherited it, I've done a lot of fairly meticulous research to write this listing. While I believe this all to be accurate, you must do your own checks. • LOMO Biolam compound microscope, made in the USSR in 1973. The plate reads Р1У4.2. The Р makes this the laboratory model, not the school model. serial №732107 • Cast metal throughout, no plastic • Rack-and-pinion coarse focus with a graduated fine-focus drum • Circular stage with clamping springs, Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm and two-sided mirror • It has standard RMS (Royal Microscopical Society) threads on the objectives, so modern lenses fit if you ever want them. • Three objectives - 8x 0.20, 40x 0.65, and the 90x 1.25 oil immersion. The nosepiece has a fourth empty place. • Both original eyepieces, K7x and K15x. • That gives a range of 56x to 1350x magnification • Blue filter and matte-white diffuser - blue for truer colour under a warm light, and white for even light • Original fitted wooden case with its drawer. The case has some scuffs and the lock is finicky. • Spanner/wrench, spare screws, washers and stage clips. • Fisher Scientific lens paper and bibulous paper, in their 1970s packaging. (Vintage cool!) • A sealed box of Fisher frosted blank slides, plus two boxes of blanks. • Two sets of prepared slides: a honeybee leg, dandelion fuzz, potato starch, peacock feather, goldfish, housefly wing, and a boxed set covering plants, insects, textile fibres, pollen and spores. • All knobs adjust. The iris on the condenser adjusts. I've cleaned the old Soviet oil out of the moving parts but I didn't add new grease. Since I'm not an expert in microscope care I didn't want to risk grease as I hear it can cloud the lenses. That part is up to you. Very little surface wear if any. • Stored with care in a dry place (Calgary). My mother loved this thing. Optics look good to me. I can see pollen through it. I understand the 90x 1.25 needs immersion oil to work properly. The oil in there is a corked bottle of vintage oil. I left it for period appeal. I suggest buying new oil. Pickup in the West End, Vancouver. Delivery to Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver or Burnaby possible