Dear microanalysts, our Jxa-8600 electron microprobe automatically switched off its electronic due to a failure in a cooling of objective lens. We checked oil in the apposite reservoir and we refilled it since its level was about 4-5 cm from the top. We re-started the probe, the failure error disappeared, the electronic switched on but proceeding as usual to saturate the filament we realized that current is extremely variable and high (up to 450 nA on Farday cup), we have no images on CRT video and we can not observe beam in the optical video. We inspected the instrument and not apparent oil leakage can be observed in both electron column ans sample chamber. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Andrea **** JEOL Probe Users Listserver Moderator: Anette von der Handt, [log in to unmask], Electron Microprobe Lab, University of Minnesota Post a message: send your message to [log in to unmask] Unsubscribe: send "SIGNOFF PROBEUSERS" to [log in to unmask] On-line help and FAQ: http://probelab.geo.umn.edu/listserver.html *