TM    Absolute Clarity & Calibration, LLC
                 109 Main Street, Terryville, CT  06786
                        Telephone - (860) 583-0502
                        E-mail:  jross@absoluteclarity.com

	Preventative Maintenance of Optical Equipment
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On-site Field Service for solutions to your problems on your terms and at your facility.

The preventative maintenance program that ACC promotes is accomplished through the following.

1. Identification of individual company needs with regards to optical equipment service.
2.  On site Preventative Maintenance Service, cleaning and diagnosis of problems leading to repair solutions.
3.  Mini-seminars given by ACC to key personnel (or the users in general) with regards to optical equipment  maintenance and set-up in between ACC service visits.  The goal is to train the users in proper maintenance and to help them diagnosis potential problems themselves.  
4. Support of the company’s personnel with regards to training issues, support documentation and solutions to applications and upgrade problems throughout the year.

To see what our preventative maintenance service entails, please click on the  instrument you are interested in.

Comparators                            Dynascopes
Flatfield Microscopes             Stereo Zoom Microscopes
Measuring Toolscopes           Video Based Measurement Systems

  Common Microscope Problems

 The alignment of a scope is only one of the more common causes of eye fatigue for scope users.

Parfocality is the ability of a scope to be focused at high magnification and maintain focus all the way to low magnification in both eyes.  If a scope is not adjusted and setup properly it may not have parfocality which will cause eye strain for the users.  ACC corrects this problem as part of its PM service.

 A lack of regular and proper maintenance is the only cause of the most difficult problem of all.  The problem is internal contamination of the optics.  The internal lubricants aromatic components evaporate after as few as 2 to 5 years and begin the internal contamination process.  Once a film of sticky contamination has coated the internal optics dirt can stick to the film making the images dull and hazy.  You may notice that the zoom knob is hard to turn or the optics may “chatter” when zooming up or down.  If you look backwards through the scope  (up through the bottom lens) and slowly turn the zoom knob, you will be able to see the dirt on every optical surface in the system.  (This will not work on infinite focus optical systems such as collimators, telescopes, long range binoculars or Theodolite.)