Antique "Ernst Leitz" Microscope Restoration - Shiny Brass Polishing

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Antique "Ernst Leitz" Microscope Restoration - Shiny Brass Polishing

In this video i made a restoration of an antique microscope, made by "Ernst Leitz" in the german city Wetzlar. I bought this antique microscope online from a private guy. When i received the microscope, i could see a lot of tarnished brass, rusted metal and damaged paint. The function of this microscope was still given but the lenses were dirty. Time to restore this old beauty. I started by taking off the brass desk from the main microscope. On the desk were a mounted brass mirror, a brass light mechanism for setting the microscopes brightness and some other brass parts. All the parts were tarnished and mounted with lots of small screws. To get them out, i had to remove a lot of patina from the brass parts. After that i disassembled the main body of the antique microscope, which was, besides of many lenses, nearly fully made of brass. These parts were also tarnished and full of patina. The Steel parts were rusted, but the disassembly of these rusted parts were easy. This was the easy part of the restoration of this microscope. I started the restoration with repairing two parts: the shaft for the microscopes height adjustment was bent, and i ripped off a brass screw, which was still stuck in the full brass desk. Another part of the microscope restoration was lathe work: i cleaned and repaired some parts on the lathe. After fixing this, i could go on with restoring the other brass parts. I cleaned them off cam and gave them a nice brass polishing for new golden shine. The steel parts were sandblasted in the sandblasting cabinet and painted in the original black color. The restoration was nearly done, i just had to reassemble all the parts. After reassemnbly, the antique brass microscope got its old shine back and looks brand new. This restoration was a lot of fun!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:05 First Inspection of the Microscope
00:50 Disassembling the Microscope
07:05 Overview Microscope Parts
07:17 Rebending the Shaft on the lathe
07:40 Fixing the broken screw on the lathe
09:00 Cleaning Parts on the lathe
09:32 Brass Polishing
11:14 Sandblasting
12:17 cold bluing
12:55 Painting the metal Parts
13:47 Reassembling the microscope
17:53 The final Result of the Restoration
18:00 Before and After of the Microscope
18:30 The Final Test

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Antique "Ernst Leitz" Microscope Restoration - Shiny Brass Polishing