I always found better and used a wet "camel's" hair pencil. It provides the most gentle pull on the sections. René J.
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Bartlett, Jeanine (CDC/OID/NCEZID) <j...@cdc.gov> wrote: From: Bartlett, Jeanine (CDC/OID/NCEZID) <j...@cdc.gov> Subject: [Histonet] microtome safety To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 8:20 AM Morning all! I need some quick responses to this question: do you use your fingers or an instrument of some sort to pull your paraffin ribbons off the block when sectioning? For those that do not use their fingers, what do you use? If forceps, are these the typical lab forceps or a special type? Thanks so much! Jeanine Bartlett, BS, HT(ASCP)QIHC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch 1600 Clifton Road, MS/G-32 18/SB-114 Atlanta, GA 30333 (404) 639-3590 jeanine.bartl...@cdc.hhs.gov _______________________________________________ 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
