[Histonet] knife used for cleaning paraffin off the blocks

[Shirley A. Powell]

I use a glass staining dish to catch the drippings.  When full I place it in the freezer to harden and it comes right out and I toss it.

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If you put a piece of paper towel in the bottom of the "drip catcher"  you 
just change that and it makes it much easier.




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Actually we have a ParaTrimmer too - it was not that expensive and we love 
it. We paid @ $500 for ours and I see the they are a bit more expensive 
now - list price anyway.
To solve the drip problem I put one of the tops from the boxes of pipette 
tips under the ledge and it catches all the drips. When the paraffin 
hardens you can just pop it out and when the "drip catcher" gets nasty we 
just throw it away and get another one.



On Aug 8, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Grantham, Andrea L - (algranth) wrote:

> Don't look in a catalog - go to Target or WalMart and look on the wall 
with kitchen gadgets. It will be much cheaper.
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> On Aug 8, 2011, at 6:28 AM, <srishan <@t> mail.holyname.org> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I wonder if someone could help me with this!
>> 
>> I am looking for a stainless steel knife that we use to scrape off the 
>> paraffin from the embedded blocks.  I could not find the 6 inches size 
>> knife in any catalog. 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> Mala
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