[alpal]

Hi All,
a friend of mine gave me a Leitz Wetzlar microscope.
You could see nothing through the right hand prism but the left one is OK.
It had been knocked off a shelf 4 feet high on to carpet many years ago.
I took the inspection plate off the binoviewer and found the right hand prism
had broken away from its mount.
I pulled the binoviewer apart and found the right hand prism was badly damaged as well and
there were tiny bits of glass inside the housing.
I cleaned that out & I found that the prism had telltale marks of where 12 spots of glue had
been used to glue it before.
I glued the prism on with 2 tiny drops of Araldite as close as possible to where it was previously
so I could check the alignment of the 2 eyepieces.

continued on next post.

cheers
Allan