I love my Sequenza. It is all I use. (Have 2 old Ventanas gathering dust)
I only purchased the racks and reuse the coverplates. I do not work for Thermo either. Paula Pierce Excalibur Pathology, Inc. 631 N Broadway Ave. Moore, OK 73160 405-759-3953 www.excaliburpathology.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Amos Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:55:54 PM Subject: [Histonet] Stainers Hi Joyce, We have an Autostainer (Dako) for the majority of our IHC. Often, however, I use a product from Thermo. The Sequenza IHC system is a bit bloated. It has a timer and a place to put the reagents ... kinda silly honestly. But, the Sequenza staining racks with cover plates (rest of the system aside) are nothing short of AWESOME! The racks hold 10 slides vertically which have cover plates on them. You put the reagents into a reservoir on top and they displace the previous reagent which drips out the bottom. The racks can be left in the fridge overnight if you like. The capillary gap prevents the reagents from sloshing around and giving you dried out sections like horizontal humidity chambers. BTW you can re-use the coverplates, just wash them really well and don't scratch or warp them. Separately I'll attach a pdf of the product because it is only in the older Thermo catalog, not the new one. Please note I do NOT work for Thermo or anything. I only reccommend really cool stuff that I've used and works well. "A (cool product) is a (cool product). That which (comes from one company) by any other name would still (be as cool)" -- Shakespeare -ish :-) Amos Message: 3 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:25:07 -0500 From: "Rush, Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Histonet] Stainers To: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are a low volume lab and currently do a limited menu of special and IHC stains on a stainer. We do our H&E's by hand. The stains for our IHC stainer are getting harder and harder to get. We are considering sending our IHC's out and getting a stainer for H&E and special stains. I'd appreciate any ideas from smaller volume labs. We do about 15,000 surgicals per year. I do apologize for asking about this as I know it's been covered over the years. Thanks so much! _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
