Re: [Histonet] Maximum and Minimum Temperatures on Embedding Center Paraffin Tanks

2020-12-08 Thread Morken, Timothy via Histonet
-Original Message- From: E. Wayne Johnson via Histonet Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2020 1:26 PM To: Pairan, Kelly ; 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: Re: [Histonet] Maximum and Minimum Temperatures on Embedding Center Paraffin Tanks You could warm the paraffin in an oven

Re: [Histonet] Maximum and Minimum Temperatures on Embedding Center Paraffin Tanks

2020-12-08 Thread E. Wayne Johnson via Histonet
You could warm the paraffin in an oven overnight to melt it so that the heat of fusion is not extracted from the embedding center paraffin tanks when it is added as melted paraffin at 58-65 degrees. Pairan, Kelly via Histonet wrote: Good Afternoon, Recently we starting taking the daily maximum

[Histonet] Maximum and Minimum Temperatures on Embedding Center Paraffin Tanks

2020-12-08 Thread Pairan, Kelly via Histonet
Good Afternoon, Recently we starting taking the daily maximum and minimum temperature ranges for our embedding center paraffin tanks. The melting point of our wax is 56oC and our current temperature range is 58 to 65oC. The problem we are having is that when we add wax, the temp dips below