[Histonet] embedding without a station?

Wed Jan 24 10:22:00 CST 2007

I still use lead L's for embedding really large specimens.

Allen A. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy
Barry University School of Graduate Medical Sciences
    Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
Miami Shores, Florida  33161

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Me, me, I do and still have a couple, but that tells you that I am older

than dirt. :)

sp

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Doesn't any body remember good 'ole lead "L's"?

Stainless steel griffon beaker in the oven worked pretty good, but we where

in hog heaven with they broke down and got us a "heated paraffin beaker".

The beaker itself wasn't actually heated.  There was an electrically heated

sleeve that the beaker sat in on the bench that kept the paraffin liquefied.

I think that it was on of Dr. McCormick's ingenious inventions...

How did we EVER survive? ... Open containers of Xylene, Formalin, Asbestos

gloves and pads, Lead "L's", and cigarette ash trays located ant each

station.

~ Ford

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Subject: RE: [Histonet] embedding without a station?

I have never felt that embedding stations are worth the counter space they

take up.  I just barely melt my Paraplast in a Pyrex beaker on a hotplate

and maintain its temperature in a 60 degree oven. I set out the mold on the

counter and pour in enough Paraplast to quarter fill it.  Since the beaker

is hot, I keep a cotton glove on my left hand.  I leave my right hand bare

to handle the forceps.)  I warm my forceps in the flame of an alcohol lamp,

and position my tissue on the bottom of the mold, set an embedding ring in

place, and fill the mold. I wipe the lip of the beaker with a paper towel

(usually one that has already been used for drying my hands). Everything