Nexcope NE620T, Manual

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4.2. Placing the specimen
Cross stage for acquisition, positioning and fixation of the specimens with clamp holder.
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START-UP AND OPERATION
1
2
A
Illustration 008: Placing the specimen on the cross stage.
Turn the coarse focusing knob (1) in the di-
rection of the blue arrow to lower the cross
stage a little (2).
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X-axis
Y-axis
10x
3
7
6
5
B
The specimen slide (3) can easily be placed
by moving it into the specimen clamp holder
(4) from the front.
Manually swing the 10x objective into the
light beam.
The focusing knobs (5, 6) are coaxial.
The X-axis knob (5) moves the specimen
holder along the X-axis.
The Y-axis knob (6) moves the cross stage
along the Y-axis.
Turn the coarse focusing knob again to care-
fully raise the stage up.
Focus on the specimen.
Fine focusing is performed with the fine fo-
cusing knob (7).
Avoid damages to the speci-
men! Only turn the coarse focusing
knob until it stops to avoid damages
to the specimen through collision with
the objective.