Many thanks to all who replied, looks like this could be a thankless and difficult task but we will persist in trying to reattach the coverslips that have the better quality sections. Meanwhile the vast remainder of the collection will keep us busy for quite some time!
Gordon I'm an amateur microscopist and along with a couple of fellow club members we have acquired a fairly extensive collection of histopathology slides (approx. 2500 slides) made in the early 2000s and used for seminar and lecture purposes. We intend to use these to further our knowledge and interest in histopathology and the majority of the slides are in superb condition for this purpose and reasonably well documented. However, approximately 300 to 400 of the slides are suffering from detachment of the coverslip, these coverslips being made of what I assume to be vinyl, and we are attempting to reattach them. Can anyone advise how this type of coverslip was attached in the first instance? I'm assuming this was done using an automatic coverslipper, but there's no easily visible trace of mountant on either the slide or the coverslip so they may be self-adhesive or use a heat activated adhesive. Each coverslip is 55.4mm x 24.1mm. Hope someone can help, if we know how they were attached in the first instance this may give us some ideas for a strategy for reattachment. Regards Gordon _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
