This is description of this part:
Roller guide (brass rail with steel rollers) – focusing block component for Zeiss microscopes (Oberkochen, West Germany).
This roller guide fits the following microscopes:
- Zeiss Standard WL
- Zeiss Universal
- Zeiss Photomicroscope I
- Zeiss Photomicroscope II
- Zeiss Photomicroscope III RS
There are two such roller guides in the focusing block (the so-called gear block) – one on the right side and one on the left side of the block. Both are identical.
Users and people involved in microscope repair and restoration very often use other names for this component, including incorrect ones, such as:
- bearing guide
- roller rail
- rail with ball bearings
- ball bearing guide
What is this part needed for?
- as a replacement component when this soft brass component becomes damaged or the bearing rollers are lost
