AW: [Histonet] Quick Drying Mounting Media

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Have you tried drying them under a "blow dryer"?  That's how we used to dry our slides before we sent them out. It was a commercially available slide dryer.

Michelle

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:57 AM, "Gudrun Lang" <gu.lang <@t> gmx.at> wrote:

> I think it's more depending on the organic solvent used before
> coverslipping.
> We use butyl acetate in the last trogh in the stainer and in the
> coverslipper. This reagent dries/ evaporates very fast. So after 15 min
> there is hardly a smell of it and we deliver our slides immediately.
> We use Pertex as coverslipping medium.
> 
> Gudrun
> Histolab, Akh Linz, Austria
> 
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> Hi histonet,
> We have a brand new Leica CV5030 Coverslipper and I am looking for the
> quickest drying media available. We are currently using Micromount by
> Surgipath/Leica and it is not drying fast enough.
> Any suggestions are appreciated as we have to package our slides for
> shipping and the media is either sticking to the bubble wrap or creating
> circles on the slides from the pressure of the bubble wrap.
> 
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