Well I always wondered, so I got to use this $250,000 dollar microscope to magnify some car parts.

This is what the microscope looks like.



These are some of the parts I scanned under the microscope.



Enjoy!

Inside Surface of 9B bearing 50x


Inside Surface of 9B bearing 200x


Inside Surface of 9B bearing 2000x


Outside Surface of 9B bearing 42x


Outside Surface of 9B bearing 100x


Outside surface of 9B bearing 400X


9b Turbine shaft 42x


9b Turbine shaft 200x


9b Turbine shaft 1000x


9b Turbine shaft 5000X


Enjoy!

Ha this is interesting. Good stuff. Are you some kind of scientist that normally is around 1/4 million dollar microscopes? ha!!

Haha na, I am just getting my masters in biology. This was for a class in school, I also scanned some photos of my transmission parts after I broke 1st gear, to check for stress cracks.

That's pretty cool, I actually analyzed stress cracks for my masters (simulated though). Very boring to do I must admit

Wow that's pretty awesome thanks for sharing.

Very, very cool! The smoothness of the turbine shaft looks really good (although I have no idea what a bad one would look like ).

As an aside, some electron microscopes are actually able to see atoms now! Saw it on Nova recently.