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Hello, I am looking for someplace to buy a quality microscope and a digital
scale. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
John

For the microscope, I would suggest checking out the ones from LW Scientific. Their website is www.lwscientific.com They have an excellent quality scope for reasonable money. I had two, a Nikon binocular oil-immersion medical scope (about $3,000.00 new) and an LW Scientific Observer IV binocular oil-immersion scope (less that $600.00 new). I ended up selling the Nikon and keeping the LW Scientific. Mine has 10x and 16x eypieces, a 4x, a 10x, a 40x dry objectives and a 100x oil objective. So, I have available magnifications from 40x to 1600x. It has a flourescent light source, an Abbe condenser, a mechanical stage and binocular and monocular heads (the heads are a pain to change on any microscope, though), plus I have a camera adapter for my Canon EOS3. The optics are exceptional for the money. The stage, the condenser, and the focusing mechanics work flawlessly. Mine, with everything I have on it, is about $850.00. They come with one head, either binocular, teaching or monocular, and 10x eyepieces and no camera adapter. The cool thing is that you can start with a basic one, monocular and no mechanical stage, for around $400.00 and then upgrade as you need to.

>>Hello, I am looking for someplace to buy a quality microscope and a digital
>>scale. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>>Thanks,
>>John

I got my digital scale from midwesttongs.com at the MARS show last year. I had been looking for a good compact scale for some time now (mainly to deal with small hatchlings up through most of our large size turtles) and most postal scales only dealt in weights of 2-5 lbs and when I saw the scale that midwest had on display, I snatched it right up. This scale can handle up to around 13 lbs and can display readouts in lbs/oz/g/kg (which makes my vet happy). Price was decent too...I think I paid something like $73 thereabouts. The scale is small something around 7x7" in size...nicely compact.

I'm hoping to find (or build) an adaptor with perch attached so I can set that on the platform in order to use it for weighing our birds as well. Our little screech owl is no problem, but the larger raptors need a perch adaptor.

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Wyvern