1. **Ocular lens (Eye piece):** Magnifies the image for viewing.
2. **Diopter adjustment:** Adjusts focus for individual eyes.
3. **Nose piece:** Holds and rotates objective lenses.
4. **Objective lens:** Provides various levels of magnification.
5. **Stage clip:** Secures the slide on the stage.
6. **Aperture:** Controls the amount of light reaching the specimen.
7. **Diaphragm:** Adjusts light intensity and contrast.
8. **Condenser:** Focuses light onto the specimen.
9. **Illuminator (Light Source):** Provides light for viewing the specimen.
10. **Head:** Connects the eyepiece to the objective lenses.
11. **Arm (Carrying handle):** Supports the microscope for carrying.
12. **Mechanical Stage:** Moves the slide precisely.
13. **Coarse adjustment:** Makes large focus adjustments.
14. **Fine adjustment:** Fine-tunes the focus for sharpness.
15. **Stage controls:** Move the slide horizontally and vertically.
16. **Base:** Provides stability to the microscope.
17. **Brightness adjustment:** Controls the intensity of the light source.
18. **Light switch:** Turns the light source on or off.
1. Use both hands when carrying the microscope: one firmly grasping the arm of the microscope; the other beneath
the base. Avoid jarring your microscope.
2. To keep the microscope and lens systems clean:
3. Never touch the lenses. If the lenses become dirty, wipe them gently with lens tissue.
4. If blurred specks appear in the field of view this may be due to lint or smears on the eyepiece. If the specks move
while rotating the eyepiece, the dust is on the eyepiece and cleaning the outer lens of the eyepiece is in order. If
the quality of the image is improved by changing objective lenses, clean the objective lens with lens paper.
5. Never leave a slide on the microscope when it is not in use.
6. Always remove oil from the oil-immersion objective lens after its use. If by accident oil should get on either of the
lower-power objective lenses, wipe it off immediately with lens tissue.
7. Keep the stage of the microscope clean and dry. If any liquids are spilled, dry the stage with a piece of
cheesecloth. If oil should get on the stage moisten a piece of cheesecloth with xylol and clean the stage, then
wipe it dry.
8. When not in use, store your microscope in its cabinet. Put the low power objective lens into position at its lowest
point above the stage. Be sure that the mechanical stage does not extend beyond the edge of the microscope
stage. Wrap the electrical cord around the base.
9. To avoid breaking the microscope:
10. Never force the adjustments. All adjustments should work freely and easily. If anything does not work correctly,
do not attempt to fix it yourself, immediately notify your instructor.
11. Never allow an objective lens to jam into or even to touch the slide or cover-slip.
12. Never focus downward with the coarse adjustment while you are looking through the microscope. Always incline
your head to the side with eyes parallel to the slide and watch the objective as you move it closer to the slide.
This will prevent you from smashing the objective into the slide.
13. Never exchange the objective or eyepiece lenses of different microscopes, and never under any circumstances
remove the front lenses from objective lenses.
14. Never attempt to carry two microscopes at one time