You can buy this type of thing too if you aren't the McGiver type. For instance...from American Mastertech item # CPW04200E
Sarah Goebel-Dysart, BA, HT(ASCP) Histotechnologist Mirna Therapeutics 2150 Woodward Street Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78744 (512)901-0900 ext. 6912 -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:50 PM To: JR R Cc: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean? We don't keep it off the floor, but do use a wide-bladed putty knife attached to a mop handle to scrape the residual wax off the floor. It woks quite nicely and doesn't remove the actual floor wax like a razor blade scrapper would. Michelle Sent from my iPhone On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:44 PM, JR R <rosenfeld...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > We keep getting a lot of paraffin on the floor of one histo room--especially around the microtome and the embedding station. > > Short of laying down a tarp, what do folks do keep wax off of the floor? > > Thanks, > > Jerry Ricks > Research Scientist > University of Washington > Department of Pathology > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet