Microscope Accessories and Replacement Parts
General accessories and parts for use with microscopes. Products include lens oil, lens cleaner, slide dispensers, microscope covers, vessel holders, light cubes, and flow cells.
Many parts of your microscope can be updated or replaced including microscope lamps, lenses, and eyepieces. Replacement lamps, light sources, and power cords can extend the working lives of your microscopy equipment. New or replacement objectives and lenses can help increase the total magnification available with your microscope.
Add greater magnification or exchange your eyepiece for one with a reticule to more easily estimate the sizes of the items being viewed.
Replace or update your mechanical stage or clamps or add cell culture vessel adapters to facilitate specimen positioning.
Condensers can also be replaced, and conversion kits are available to add phase contrast, polarization, fluorescence, or other capabilities to your current system.
Some microscopes can be adapted for use with still or video cameras. Look for cameras and adapters designed for your specific microscope brand. Film and documentation-related products may also be available to support your record-keeping.
Temporary, semi-permanent, and more long-term slide storage options include:
- Slide racks that securely hold slides during staining procedures
- Folding fiberboard or plastic slide holders with horizontal indentations that keep microscope slides in place
- Slide storage boxes with vertical dividers; made from fiberboard, plastic, and wood and available in multiple sizes
- Slide holders and mailers for transporting slides safely
- Slide storage systems and cabinets for large quantities of slides or archival storage
Electron Microscopy Sciences Indexed Grid Graticle NE71, 26 mm, 20 x 20 Grid of 0.5 mm squares
Useful for particle counting, particularly when reference is needed between workers. Also, they are useful for area of specimen determinations. Index Pattern.
Size: 26 mm
Divisions: 20 x 20 Grid of 0.5 mm squares
Electron Microscopy Sciences Integrated EyePiece (Simplified) Graticle G50, 24mm
The eyepiece reticle has a 100 point integrating pattern. It is a slightly simplified version of G47 pattern.
Size: 24 mm
Electron Microscopy Sciences Gilder Thin Bar Square 1000 mesh Copper Grid
Thin Bar Grids have been developed using a new technology to produce ultra-fine grids with thinner cross bars than regular grids. The result is equally firm specimen support but with 40% more open area for viewing maximum specimen surface area. 3.05 diameter, 0.8 mil thickness.
Grid: Copper
Pitch: 25 µm
Hole: 19 µm
Bar: 6 µm
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Electron Microscopy Sciences C-Flat™ Holey Carbon Grid CF-2/2-2C, 200 mesh Cu
C-flat is an ultra-flat, holey carbon-coated support grid for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Unlike competing holey carbon films, C-flat is manufactured without plastics, so it is clean upon arrival and the user has no residue to contend with. Made with patent pending technology, C-flat provides an ultra-flat surface that results in better particle dispersion and more uniform ice thickness.
Patterning is done using deep-UV projection lithography, ensuring the most accurate and consistent hole shapes and sizes down to submicron features. The precise methods by which C-flat is manufactured elminate artifacts such as excess carbon and edges around holes.
C-flat holey carbon grids provide the ideal specimen support to achieve high resolution data in making them an ideal choice for cryo single particle analysis, cryo tomography and automated TEM analysis. 2.0 µm holes with 2.0 µm spacing.
Mesh: 200
Material: Copper
Electron Microscopy Sciences Mechanical Tool Kit
The mechanical sample preparation prior to thinning requires custom made mechanical hand tools. Containing six handy, reliable pieces, this kit has been designed on the basis of practical experience of many users. Some of the tools are suitable for adjusting the sample pieces into the Ti discs, others for removing the excess glue and cutting, or adjusting the seat plate of the sample holder.
Electron Microscopy Sciences Microscope Graticule NE31 Horizontal, 16 mm, 0.5" with 100 divisions of 0.0005"
These scales are used for the measuring of lengths of specimen or distances between points on a variety of different shaped objects. By dividing the division of the chosen graticule by the magnification of the objective one obtains an approximate value that each division will represent on the stage. Horizontal micrometer scale.
Size: 16 mm
Electron Microscopy Sciences SEM Hitachi Single Mount Storage Tube
A plastic tube and plug for M4 threaded Hitachi mounts. 15 mm in diameter Tube. A 15 mm Hitachi mount can be inserted securely to the plug and then protected by the tube. Ideal for storage as well as mailing. The internal diameter of the tube is 0.83"(21 mm). The Outer measurements of the tube are: 0.9" (23 mm) x2.05” H (52 mm)
Electron Microscopy Sciences Indexed Grid Reticle RET 83, 21 mm, 5 mm x 5 mm Scale, 1 mm squares Divisions
High quality, precision made standard reticles are manufactured to use with our microscope eyepieces. All recticles are chrome on glass and positive polarity.
Size: 21 mm
Scale: 5 mm x 5 mm
Divisions: 1 mm squares
Line width: 10 µm
Electron Microscopy Sciences Cargille Microscope Immersion Oil Type OVH 1 OZ
Cargille PCB-Free Immersion oils were introduced in 1972. Today, no other immersion oil meets FDA criteria. For horizontal, inverted and inclined instruments and projection equipment where higher viscosities are generally required. Viscosity: 46,000 cSt +/- 10% @ 23 deg C (centistokes).
Density: @ 23°C: 0.918 g/cc
Electron Microscopy Sciences Carbon Cohesive Sheet, 0.16 mm
These conductive cohesive sheets offer good adhesion to the specimen and yield good conductivity and background structures, even with particles as small as 15 microns. Produces minimum gas under vacuum conditions.
Thickness: 0.16 mm
Adhesive Power: 1,100 gf/25 mm
Conductive resistivity: 4,000 ohm/5 mm2
size: 5cm(W)x12cm(L)
Electron Microscopy Sciences CoverWell™ Perfusion Chamber 1 well with 520 µl volume
CoverWell Perfusion Chambers allows up to 16 different specimens on one coverglass. "Press-to-Seal" covers form water-tight, multiwall cell incubation or cytochemistry chamber when pressed to coverslips or microscope slides. Reagents can be quickly added and removed through dual access ports (1.5 mm Dia) without disturbing or cross-contaminating specimens in adjacent wells. Chambers are removable for permanent mounting of specimens. CoverWell chambers are made from medical grade silicone bonded to clear, UV transparent plastic.
Volume: 520 µl
Electron Microscopy Sciences Cellometer™ Disposable Counting Chamber, Plastic Base
These Disposable Cell Counters are an enclosed chamber with two ports for sample introduction. The chamber contains precisely spaced lines in a grid pattern. There are two counting chambers per slide for replicates. The counting grid pattern is the Improved Neubauer, as in a common Hemacytometer. The consistent pattern design allows the standard cell counting procedure to be followed.
Electron Microscopy Sciences Chalkley Point Array Graticle NG52, 19mm
Eyepiece graticle is used to quickly determine the relationship of components to each other using random sampling. Curtis gives an example of its application, where a researcher may want to see whether or not a certain drug affects the volume proportion of cell types in a given organ. With this graticule the proportion of points lying over the image of one type of component is statistically proportional to the area occupied by that component. The 25 points of the array are placed over the field of view at random, so that a comparison can be made between the number of points touching the one type of component, with number touching the other type of component in each viewing. A series of observations will yield an increasingly accurate ratio of the comparative incidence of each type of particle.
Size: 19 mm
Electron Microscopy Sciences Calibration Specimen 300-1D, Unmounted
SPM calibration specimens are produced by holographic fabrication that assures high accuracy and precision. The standards provide easier testing of your SPM, improved accuracy of critical dimension measurements and accuracy of 0.5% (1 std. dev.). The pattern height of greater than 100nm provides excellent image contrast. There is uniform coverage of entire chip which allows for imaging anywhere on the chip. 300-1D, pattern: parallel ridges, nominal pitch: 300 nm, material: W-coated photoresist on Si.
Mount: Unmounted