Alistair K on Nostr: One thing that often goes wrong with historical microscopes is that they've been ...
One thing that often goes wrong with historical microscopes is that they've been greased with the wrong kind of grease. If you're good with a screwdriver (I mean that sincerely – conservators handle them with great concentration and suffering), you can usually open up the workings, clean the decayed grease out, and apply a lubricant closer to what it was designed for. Otherwise the rank-and-pinion mechanism may be badly gummed up.
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