[Histonet] troubleshooting help

[Webb, Dorothy L]

I am having trouble with this scenario that I have walked into today.  Our Sakura VIP 5 tissue processor had about 150 cassettes on it and they are all overprocessed, very hard. I have checked with a hydrometer all of the alcohols and all seem fine and in the proper order.  There were no error codes, nothing stopped in any given step, they were done on time.  The only thing that is unusual is that when the tech opened up the processor, she noticed the top of the lid had a large amount of paraffin hanging from it, which we do not normally see.  I checked the carbon filter, it is fine.

Anybody out there have any ideas as to what could be going on ?????  Much thanks for whatever advice I am given.  I have never in all of my years come across a scenario such as this without there having been alcohols incorrectly placed.

Dorothy Webb, HT (ASCP)
Regions Histology Technical Specialist
651-254-2962



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