[histonet] Cleaning and re-using slides

[Peter Carroll]

sorry... your boss is crazy! ;)

Nicholas Evans wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> In our lab our boss is adamant that we must clean and recycle old unmounted
> microscope slides (which have paraffin and cryo sections on them). It is
> driving us nuts, as the process of cleaning the slides is incredibly tedious
> and labor-intensive - it is vital that the slides are spotlessly clean
> before re-treating. We (when I say we, i mean the student lackies who get
> drafted in the lab, not me, hoho) currently physically scrub them with
> various solvents, such as citrisolve, acetone etc. we use Fisherbrand
> Superfrost/plus slides.
>
> Anyone got any ideas how to speed this up/automate – is there a machine
> available? And would anyone care to vote on the lunacy or soundness of this
> idea? (Please post to me, not the list.) We are not a clinical lab, by the
> way.
>
> Nick
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