I have a tool that I got from those odd ball lab supply company that carry a little of everything. Its long like a broom handle and has a scraper blade on the bottom with a removable replaceable blade. Cost like 20 bucks works great then I just sweep it up.
Nicole Tatum, HT ASCP 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 > _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet