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Build a microscope!

Step 2Turn the enlarger into a microscope stand

Turn the enlarger into a microscope stand
Remove the bellows and the red filter, and turn the whole thing around. The focusing knob is now moving the part with the objective lens up and down.

Perhaps the base needs to be supported with a piece of wood to stand upright. The hollow part of the base plate, designed to allow the light to get through, needs a wooden insert. This will be the object table. Do not fasten it, because transparent objects have to be viewed with light from below, you can use a glass plate as object table for this.
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No more fun than demolition, designing, building, experimenting! I like making things on a really low budget , so most people in this world, who are poor, might benefit from my ideas