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(@marmon16)
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Light My Cars

Just bought a teeny tiny pinpoint flash light. Great for the full exam of our cars that we all like. I am seeing details I never picked up even with a good desk work lamp.



   
Ralf
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Good idea!


Ralf Buyer
Wiesbaden, Germany


   
Graeme Ogg
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For REALLY close scrutiny I still prefer my scanning electron microscope


Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.


   
(@mazwoolley)
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Put it back

You know that microscope is supposed to be used in your local health centre for patient diagnostics not to measure your toys.



   
(@karl)
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SEM of the seats in Graeme's latest 1/43 creation...

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Actually, we use SEM all the time at work so this is corn starch. [Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239271859_A_study_of_the_porosity_of_gas_filtration_cakes ]



   
Harv Goranson
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Where I used to work we could see photos of atoms.

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A silicon array with bismuth atoms moving into vacated spots.



   
(@karl)
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wow!



   
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