Microtomy Accessories And Supplies

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Glass Knife Making Tools and Supplies
Glass Strips
Glass Boat Making Supplies
Dental Wax
Glass Knife Boat Kit
Micro Spatula
Tapes and Sealers
Specialized Tools
Brushes
Peg Block And Loop
Pin Vise With Long Handle
Pipettes
Specimen Pick-up Loops
Trimmers and Holders
Butler Block Trimmer
Butler Illuminator
Freezing Specimen Holder For Microtome

Glass Knife Making Tools and Supplies

No. 53130: Glass Strips
Finest quality tempered glass, professionally broken to close tolerances. 1" x 8"x ¼" thick.
Pkg/6. . . . .$24.95
Other sizes available on special order.



No. 11960: Diamond-Tipped Glass Scorer
For scoring the harder glasses used in making ultra-microtomy knives. 6½" long. . . . .$8.45



No. 11970: Three-Way Glass Knife Scoring Guide
A simple plastic device for guiding the score mark to make 1" wide glass strips, 1" x 1" glass squares, and glass knives. Instructions included. . . . .$27.00



Boat-Making Supplies

No. 53910: Glass Knife Boat Kit
A kit to make simple, disposable boats for holding liquids to float sections off the glass knife. Kit contains dental wax, silver coated tape, quick drying boat sealer, two aluminum weighing dishes, single edge razor blades, brush and instructions for making boats. . . . .$35.75



No. 52410: Dental Wax
Useful as a substrate on which to mince tissue samples. Also useful for sealing knife boats.
Pkg/1 lb. . . . .$34.85



No. 53850: Micro Spatula
For handling molten wax to seal boats to glass knives. Curved pointed blade at one end and v-shaped spoon at other end. Stainless steel. 6¼" long. . . . .price

No. 53980: Silver Coated Polyester Tape
Ideal for making glass knife boats or binding glass on photographic slides.
Roll/ 3/8" x 72 yards. . . . .$19.25



Floating Tools and Aids

No. 14850: Peg Block And Loop
Convenient for holding grids while placing films or sections on grids. Also for drying the specimens after mounting. Heavy base. Ten removable stainless steel pegs with tweezer pickup grooves for easy removal. Loop is made of chrome plated brass. . . . .price

No. 14851: Peg Block Loop
For picking up sections or replicas for transfer to grids. Chrome plated brass. 7" long. . . .price



No. 54220: Thin-Section Brush
A single fiber brush for manipulating thin sections on a water surface. 6" long hex shaped handle.
. . . . .price



No. 54230: Camel Hair Brushes
For application of paraffin, specimen manipulation, cleaning and many more uses. 7½" long.
Pkg/12. . . . .price



No. 52310: Disposable Pipettes
Disposable Pasteur pipettes. Glass, pkg/250. . . . .price



No. 52320: Pipette Bulbs
For use with No. 52310 Pipettes, pkg/10. . . . .price



No. 54200: Fine Wire Specimen Loop
Wire loop in a pin vise for picking up sections from knife boats. 5mm diameter loop. 10cm long. Loops are non-corroding nichrome wire. . . . .price
No. 54201: Replacement Loops, pkg/5. . . . .price



No. 54202: Special Loops
Loops can be made in any diameter from 0.5mm (0.020") to 15mm from these precious metal wire. Specify diameter of loop and specific wire desired. One loop and pin vise. . . . .price



No. 54210: Section Pick-Up Loop
For transferring sections from water surface to specimen screens. 6" long. . . . .price



No. 54205: Pin Vise With Long Handle
Standard pin vise fitted with 5" long aluminum handle. Light weight, comfortable and easy to use. Hexagonal handle won't roll on a bench top. . . . .price



Trimming and Freezing

No. 54350: Butler Block Trimmer
A precision device for hand-trimming tissue blocks to the trapezoidal shape essential to ultra-thin sectioning. The knife guide swivels to cut desired sides of the block. Can be utilized with any stereomicroscope with epi-illumination. (As seen in Stain Technology, Vol. 49, No. 4: pp. 129-132, 1974). . . . .$390.00



Butler Illuminator
For ultramicrotome knife orientation and block approach. Complete with DC power supply. Mounting instructions for Sorvall, LKB, and Reichert Microtomes included. (As seen in Stain Technology, Vol. 51, No. 4: pp. 241-243, 1976)

No. 54360: Universal Model Illuminator. . . . .$57.20
No. 54361: Universal Model Replacement Bulb. . . . .$13.00
No. 54370: Sorvall MT-2B Illuminator. . . . .$52.00
No. 54371: Sorvall Model Replacement Bulb. . . . .$13.00



No. 12590: DC Power Supply
A variable voltage power supply with output meter. (Output up to 300ma@ 12V DC). . . . .price



No. 14940: Freezing Specimen Holder For Microtome
A simple plastic refrigerant chamber which clamps into a rotary or sliding microtome. Greatly simplifies thin sectioning for light microscopy or surface sectioning for scanning electron microscopy.

The specimen is frozen in place on the end of the chamber, and is quickly ready for sectioning, with either a steel or glass knife. The refrigerant may be Freon, liquid nitrogen or solid carbon dioxide.

Includes can of Refrigerant 134A with valve, nipple, plastic tubing and instructions. . . . .POR


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