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I periodically use a scraper to get the wax off the floor under the microtomes
and I have housekeeping strip the floors a couple of times a year. We also use
a shop vac to vacuum up around the embedder and throughout the lab. We have
sticky mats at the entrance to the microtome stations and at t
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean
We use a razor blade scraper but we turn it around and use the dull side.
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:59:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?
We don't keep it off the floor, bu
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
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On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:44 PM, JR R
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
