The oil serves a valuable purpose and shopuld be found on all blades of high quality. It protects against oxidation and allows the blades to be easily separated from one another, so the oil has always been there. I have personally found no advantage to wiping or not wiping the oil from the slides. My 2cents - Bill
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherwood, Margaret Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:27 PM To: Laurie Colbert; Brandi Higgins; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Histonet] accu-edge low profile microtome blades We use the low-profile microtome blades and love them. We actually found Thermo-Fisher's brand of the low-profile to work just as well and they are less expensive. We had problems with other manufacturers' low -profile blades that had the oil on them. However we have several sample boxes and I will have the techs wipe the oil off and see if they work better. Thanks, Laurie. ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Laurie Colbert Sent: Mon 8/30/2010 4:25 PM To: Brandi Higgins; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Histonet] accu-edge low profile microtome blades We also use those blades and love them. We've tried others but always come back to the Accu-edge. I have always noticed a film of oil on the blades. I usually wipe the edge of the blade with a kimwipe before using it. Laurie Colbert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandi Higgins Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Histonet] accu-edge low profile microtome blades Hello all, We use the accu-edge low profile microtome blades (exclusively, as they work best for us). We noticed an oil/lubricant of some sort on the blades in the last box that we opened (we checked one other box and it has the same, although none previously did, or at least we didn't notice it). The oil is giving us problems with our sectioning. Has anyone else noticed this, either now or in the past? Also, does anyone have a suggestions of other blades we should use? Thanks for your input, Brandi Higgins, BS, HT(ASCP) _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
