Protector scopes

[Mike Cecil]

I see Steve G refers to trying to gluing them together, but the resulting optical qualities were not good. Resin glues tend to have a yellow colour, even when applied very thinly.

When I was training to be a geologist many many moons ago, we had to make our own thin-section rock slides for microscopy. The 'glue' was a thing called Canada Balsam which we used to glue the rock to the glass, then the cover slip to the rock and glass after grinding the face to the desired thickness. Optical qualities were not diminished. I wonder if that has an application here? It was what I was going to experiment with to make the glass vision blocks for the Dingo, but of course, relocating to the USA got in the way of that!

There are probably much more advanced mounting media these days, but microscopy could provide a type that is durable and does not diminish the optical properties of the glass.

Just a thought....

Mike