How should I clean my dies before checking with at microscope?
Depending on how dirty your dies are you may want to use a degreasing agent, an ultrasonic bath, compressed air and special cleaning paper.
How should I use your microscope?
- Make sure the distance between the eye-pieces match the distance between your eyes. If you cannot comfortably look through the microscope then adjust the eye-piece distance.
- Make sure the die is clean.
- Place die into the die stage
- Switch on bottom and top lights
- Start at lowest magnification and adjust focus to obtain a sharp image
- Incline the die such that the area that you’d like to investigate is clearly visible
- Re-adjust focus if necessary
- Adjust bottom-lighting in order to get the maximum contrast for observing the area of interest
- Adjust the zoom rate to your liking.
I would like to check the wire surface. Can I use your microscope for that?
Yes, you can. Remove the die stage, and turn-off the bottom light and use the top-light only. Place the wire on the microscope base and zoom-in to your preference and adjust the focus to obtain a clear image of the wire.
I need to store pictures of wire surfaces (or drawing dies). Do you have something for that?
Yes, there are several available.
- If you have a trinocular microscope then we can provide a USB camera that can be placed in the trinocular tube.
- If you have a binocular or a monocular microscope then we have a USB camera available that can be placed instead of one of the eye-pieces.
The USB camera then needs to be plugged into a Windows computer before you can store the images as a jpg or a png file.