I am purchasing my second Leica RM2255 automated microtome. Rene' is correct in saying that the carpal tunnel syndrome will eventually affect every advanced tech by using any microtome manually. On the RM2255, the flywheel additionally is automated. You can choose to use the flywheel manually or automated by the simultaneous pushing of two buttons. Nice feature for us "oldies" to ease us into automation or if you have a tiny specimen that you need to take extra care with and want to use manually. Companies are very happy to send in a demo to try for a couple weeks.
Happy shopping!! ;) Lynette ________________________________________ From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] on behalf of Rene J Buesa [rjbu...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 1:19 PM To: Rathborne, Toni; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] automated microtomes The advantage of the so called automated microtomes (the only thing automated about them is the block advance) is that they alleviate wrist effort and in some ways prevent carpal tunnel syndrome that affects some histotechs (mostly of the "senior persuasion"). I would go with the Leica. René J. From: "Rathborne, Toni" <trathbo...@somerset-healthcare.com> To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:48 AM Subject: [Histonet] automated microtomes I'm looking for some opinions about the automated microtomes currently available. Which ones do most techs prefer? Which are more reliable? Is there an advantage to having a semi-automated microtome? Thanks in advance for your replies. Toni _______________________________________________ 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
