Advice on Lisa 2 restoration

On 04/04/11 22:29, Chuck Guzis wrote: I'll second that. I have an Olympus SZ30 with 0.9-4x vari-zoom objectives, a 10x eyepiece set and a 20x eyepiece set (I also have a Brunel Microscopes SLR camera adapter for it, but that's another story). It's one of the few pieces of equipment I'd never sell, not in a million years. Optical quality may not be "perfect", and it's a bit of a pig to use (I've never managed to get the dioptre and interpupillary distance adjustments "right"), but it's useful for debugging PCBs which have no obvious cause for failure, and is essential for repairing boards with small SMD parts. I honestly don't know how I've managed all these years without one... Although I do need to bolt on some form of illumination system. The ideal would be one of the Olympus SZ fibre-optic ring lights, although I might try and build an LED illuminator from a couple of Luxeon emitters... After all, the worst case situation is that it doesn't work and I learn something new regardless -- "I haven't failed, I've found a thousand different ways which don't work!" :) -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/