RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

2011-06-20 Thread Nicole Tatum
- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:50 PM To: JR R Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean? We don't keep

RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

2011-06-15 Thread sgoebel
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RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

2011-06-15 Thread DANIEL HEWITT
...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of CHRISTIE GOWAN Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:21 AM To: sgoe...@mirnarx.com; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com; rosenfeld...@hotmail.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean

Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

2011-06-15 Thread Grantham, Andrea L - (algranth)
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

Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

2011-06-14 Thread histot...@imagesbyhopper.com
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 Sent from my iPhone On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:44 PM, JR