Grs will be the best no doubt, but I could not afford one and went with this: https://www.amscope.com/articulating-stand-with-clamp-for-stereo-microscopes.html?medium=tsa&gclid=Cj0KCQiAheXiBRD-ARIsAODSpWMP9Lc_EUFyOvm0_buBd2XYq9JgCWv8EL41wdPj-odnivm0rUaz_igaAmBfEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
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Paid 50 dollars for the microscope, and soon found out why, was totally out of alignment, had to disassemble the whole thing and adjust it. Also one of the eye peices was busted on arrival, so had to purchase another 10x wf for 15 dollars...
She's old, she ain't pretty, and it took me 6 hours to get the optics aligned!!! But I can now see!!!! And wow, for anybody who hasn't got a scope yet, you gotta get one! Saving up for one of those fancy leicas.
Homemade tools can be great, but sometimes you have to invest a lot of money upfront to get "tools to make the tools", lots of fun, check out this homemade graver:
I think it may be hard to find someone who is willing to engrave the phone due to the risk of damaging the product, but it is neat to engrave one, the aluminum is easy, check out this video:
My victor vise must use standard pins, because when I ordered a set of accessories they fit, didn't even think about how they might not, maybe I got lucky, I use the pins sometimes mostly. You may want to swap the grease out and clean it, did mine and its a bit smoother. here's a neat video of...
Hey guys, on second thought, maybe instead of making your own graver, you should just give all your money away altogether and not only pay others to make the tools, but pay others to do the engraving for you as well, wink wink! P. S. I promise I am not a toolmaker on the forum descised as a...
My uncle was a master jeweler and graver, always made a lot of his tool including his pneumatic air graver. This was many years ago, guess he should have got that patent. Making your own isn’t that hard, plenty of videos on YouTube, instead of listening to folks tell you to hand over your money...
Neat to see folks still making their own gravers, my uncles was a master jeweler and graver for over 50 years and always made his own, he never owned a commercial model, although he did have a nice diamond power hone to sharpen his gravers