I should have mentioned that the section invariably remains attached to these vinyl coverslips when they become detached from the slides. If they had remained on the slides we wouldn't have a problem as we are used to restoring much older, Victorian slides that use Canada Balsam as a mountant. In this instance our options are obviously limited by lack of understanding how the coverslips are applied and that coverslipping sysrem works.
Gordon -------- Original message -------- From: Paula Keene Pierce <pa...@excaliburpathology.com> Date:15/11/2018 21:45 (GMT+00:00) To: Gordon Brown <gor...@10db.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Detached vinyl coverslips - any advice on reattachment? Hi, you will need to soak those in acetone to remove the plastic coverslip. Then you can coverslip as usual with glass and resin. Paula Keene Pierce, BS, HTL(ASCP)HT President Excalibur Pathology, Inc. 5830 N Blue Lake Drive Norman, OK 73069 PH 405-759-3953 www.excaliburpathology.com From: Gordon Brown via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:15 PM Subject: [Histonet] Detached vinyl coverslips - any advice on reattachment? 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 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
