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Yeah, this thing is from the 50s or 60s. No manual, so I don't know how old.
Haven't tried to look at anything with it -
things are nuts enough lately without also being
a reliquary.
Phil
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>A transmitted fluorescence microscope! Wow, I
>thought those things went out in the 60s. A
>colleague of mine was blinded in one eye by one
>... (but I guess not using a halogen lamp!) Can
>you get any useful image from it?
>
>Looking at the current website, the microscopes
>seem to be rather routine widefield transmitted
>light systems, in regular and 'tropical'
>varieties. They say that they all have Köhler
>illumination, which many other cheap systems
>don't, and that may be why some UK amateurs like
>them. From the look of them I'd guess that they
>are made in China.
>
> Guy
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>As far as I can tell, it's "nothing more" than a transmitted
>fluorescence microscope that doesn't use a mercury bulb. It depends
>on the blue emission from a bright halogen bulb for things like DAPI.
>There seems to be an amateur microscopy community in the UK that uses
>G&S microscopes - someone in Old Blighty might have more information
>(Keith?).
>
>Phil
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>>Just out of interest, can you tell us what it is / does?
>>
>> Guy
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>>Thanks to all who responded. I managed to run down some information
>>on this beast, once I got past misspelling "Gillett".
>>Looks like we've got a collector's item here - anyone want to buy it?
>>It works, just not well enough for research anymore - I don't see it
>>replacing our confocals.
>>
>>Phil
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>>>The name is, I think, Gillett and Sibert. The company behind it is
>>>called Elcomatic, and their web site is http://www.elcomatic.co.uk/
>>I'd
>>>suggest you contact them. I can't see anything confocal or
>>fluorescence
>>>in their present product list but they may have some literature.
>>>
>>> Guy
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>>>Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis,
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>>>We have a Gillette and Sibert confluorescence microscope, but no
>>>manual, nor anyone who knows anything about this 'scope.
>>>Does anyone know about these, or have any information on them? I have
>>>seached the confocal list archives to no avail.
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Phil
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