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Hi there

 

A friend of mine posted this image asking if anyone recognised it. I haven't got a clue what it is but I'm sure someone on the forum will??

 

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Mike

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Intriguing... I'haven't by sure ever seen it, but reasoning with calm about it can bring to some hipotesis.... wood base makes it to think of a lab equipment... there is an electrical cable (small lamp to be mounted in the center black receptacle ?) ... the style of the Leitz logo at left suggests, I think, postwar time... the two rectangular "boxes" have dimensions that suggest glass plates for microscopes... but just a guess... let me think a little (in the meantime someone of the forum, who likes also non strictly photographic Leitz equipment, can have a precise answer... ;))  

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Seems to be an old horizontal needle pipette puller with missing heating coil (should be plugged into the black socket in the middle). But only one small picture, I do not know ...

 

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Wolfgang

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Hi there

 

I've just been advised by Mike Stokes who used to manage the "Ace Cameras Yate Branch" that the mystery item is something called a DuBois Needle Pulling Machine which was manufactured by Leitz in the 1930's until the 1950s.  and was used to make glass micropipette tools.

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Hi there

 

I've just been advised by Mike Stokes who used to manage the "Ace Cameras Yate Branch" that the mystery item is something called a DuBois Needle Pulling Machine which was manufactured by Leitz in the 1930's until the 1950s. and was used to make glass micropipette tools.

I agree, but with 50 years of progress they (modern pipette pullers) are still a PITA to use!

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Hi there

 

I've just been advised by Mike Stokes who used to manage the "Ace Cameras Yate Branch" that the mystery item is something called a DuBois Needle Pulling Machine which was manufactured by Leitz in the 1930's until the 1950s.  and was used to make glass micropipette tools.

 

Amazing, I wish I'd had one as a kid, I was the only person in the class that couldn't make a drawn pipette using a Bunsen burner.

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