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Offline richardt

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Re: Refractometer - Which one is best?
« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2010, 07:15:12 pm »
Any ideas why that would be, Martin?

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Re: Refractometer - Which one is best?
« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2010, 07:15:40 pm »
I also find that the interface line between the white and blue zone sharpens with more time.  It starts out very fuzzy and sharpens in a few minutes.

If you let the refractometer rest upside-down the particulate in the same will settle away from the prism and you get a crisper line. I read this on a different forum and it actually works.

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Re: Refractometer - Which one is best?
« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2010, 08:55:10 pm »
I also find that the interface line between the white and blue zone sharpens with more time.  It starts out very fuzzy and sharpens in a few minutes.

If you let the refractometer rest upside-down the particulate in the same will settle away from the prism and you get a crisper line. I read this on a different forum and it actually works.

Kai

Interesting.
I have to try it next time.
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Re: Refractometer - Which one is best?
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2010, 08:36:12 am »
Optics are way out of my field.  I have no idea why the interface sharpens with time.  I'll have to test what Kai is saying, maybe it does sharpen faster upside down?
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Re: Refractometer - Which one is best?
« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2010, 08:59:25 am »
I tap and press on the lens cover.  That seems to clear it up a little, as well.