What does a turbine shaft and journal bearings look like magnified?

[doesitonall4rs]

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.

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

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Enjoy!

Inside Surface of 9B bearing 50x

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Inside Surface of 9B bearing 200x

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Inside Surface of 9B bearing 2000x

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Outside Surface of 9B bearing 42x

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Outside Surface of 9B bearing 100x

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Outside surface of 9B bearing 400X

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9b Turbine shaft 42x

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9b Turbine shaft 200x

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9b Turbine shaft 1000x

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9b Turbine shaft 5000X

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Enjoy!

 

[shockey1013]

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

 

[doesitonall4rs]

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.

 

[4Lurker4]

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

 

[Michael@FP]

Wow that's pretty awesome thanks for sharing.

 

[romeen]

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.