Some of the gear I use needed repair, so during the downtime I made myself a better lifter out of the adjustment parts of 2 microscopes, and a universal rotation stage out of a maritime lamp holder. The latter is very interesting because it means that I can keep things in focus whilst I rotate or angle them. There's a photo of it in the comments under this pic, which is a new stack I did today using this stuff
This is what I mean by a universal rotation stage. It also rotates round on a pin under the base. And the thing holding the pin is actually a magnet so that can also rotate. That's 4x360 rotation. So I can basically get to any angle without refocusing. The microscope stage is literally a microscope base, with extra coarse adjustment track glued in with araldite (ie double Y movement), and the arms of the slide X,Z slider removed, but a bit of plexi glued onto it (araldite is my friend). So that in effect makes another stage, this time at the specimen end. At the camera end there's a bellows (Z), a Velbon (Z,Y) and stackshot (Z). Flexibility is good
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