Microscope for manure inspection??

[TanksHill]

I know some of you have microscopes for looking at poop.

I have always thought if I saw one at a good price I should pick it up.

Well what do you think about this??

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/for/2206028564.html

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[Wifezilla]

Nice!

Get it

I got lucky and got mine at a garage sale but even that was $10 and it didn't have all the extras.

 

[BarredBuff]

I have a microscope but Ive never looked at poop under it..............interesting

 

[TanksHill]

Thanks, that's what I thought. I will call tomorrow.

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[patandchickens]

For $20 you wouldn't be losing too much even if it's inappropriate. Which it might be, it is clearly not a lab type microscope and some of those kids-hobby type ones have cripplingly terrible optics. Although the old ones of that type are not IME as uniformly useless as the more recently made kids-hobby type ones.

If you get it, make sure all the major parts are there, and actually look through it at a piece of your own hair stretched across the stage. If you can get a really clear look at the hair, see the leetle shingle-like scaley bits on it, then it should be basically ok for doing fecals. If it is really bad blurry/rainbowy/distorted or if there is a big difference in focus between the center and the outer half, it could be a problem though.

Good luck, have fun,

Pat