This is description of this part:
Chrome-plated side rails for the microscope base of the Reichert Austria Zetopan and Neozet microscopes.
In the standard versions of the Reichert Zetopan and Reichert Neozet microscopes, these rails serve only a decorative purpose.
However, the Reichert Zetopan microscope was also available in a version equipped for fluorescence illumination. The large size of the illumination unit used (for example the Binolux 3 model), which was mounted at the rear of the microscope, made it necessary to raise the entire microscope. For this purpose, Reichert Austria offered a special raising base (referred to by the manufacturer as the "sub-base", catalogue number 9 18 87 01). This raising base was equipped with retaining clips that attached to the microscope base, and those clips engaged precisely with the chrome-plated side rails presented here.
The particular rails presented here were removed from a Reichert Zetopan microscope. To the best of my knowledge, they are also compatible with the Reichert Neozet model.
Although two identical rails are mounted on the microscope base, I offer each rail separately. Very often only one rail breaks, so the user needs to replace only a single one. Please note that the chrome plating on the rails presented here is incomplete in places due to the age of these components.
Information from the manufacturer's English-language catalogue "Zetopan Research Microscope. Price List, Effective December 1, 1976":
- This component belongs to the microscope stand. The catalogue number of the stand is: 9 90 00 01
What is this part needed for?
- if your microscope is missing this item
