Hey, I'm boiling some molds now on a hot plate, in hot soapy water, in a metal paraffin pot.
Oh and the left over coffee from yesterday might melt the nitrile. Depending on who made it. Sincerely, Toysha N. Mayer, MBA, HT(ASCP) tnma...@mdanderson.org Instructor/Education Coordinator Program in Histotechnology School of Health Professions MD Anderson Cancer Center 713-563.3481 Message: 4 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:09:25 -0700 From: jeff lowen <lowenj...@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: Bunsen Burner To: Paula Sicurello <pat...@gmail.com> Cc: "Histonet Post \(histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu\)" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu>, "Hannen, Valerie" <valerie.han...@parrishmed.com> Message-ID: <blu173-w48709e664f7e16596ab27bbf...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" will hot coffee melt the nitrile? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:58:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: Bunsen Burner From: pat...@gmail.com To: lowenj...@hotmail.com CC: billodonn...@catholichealth.net; valerie.han...@parrishmed.com; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message: 10 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:41:15 -0400 From: Jim Burchette <jburc...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: bunsen burner at the embedding center To: "Davis, Cassie" <cda...@che-east.org> Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: <candy+mdqjruk2heqhtu97cjvuedhnbnzffzqw54wzfkgt7c...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Back in the 70's we would boil metal base molds in water using a bunsen burner and a 3 legged ring stand. On Sep 20, 2013 9:37 AM, "Davis, Cassie" <cda...@che-east.org> wrote: > Hi Valerie, > When I started in Histo in 90' everybody used the alcohol > burners...Open flame concern became a concerned and the separate forcep > warmers were purchase because the old embedding centers did not have the > nice warmers like the new ones do. The last place I worked at had an old > embedding center when I started but we weren't allowed open flames. > Fortunately, we found an unused Bacteria Incinerator that Micro. wasn't > using and used that until that embedding center died. That worked great! > > Cassandra Davis > cda...@che-east.org > 302-575-8095 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet