[Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?

[DANIEL HEWITT]

We us a scraper I bought at Home Depot called the floor buster.

Daniel Hewitt
Histology Supervisor, HVS
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of CHRISTIE
GOWAN
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:21 AM
To: sgoebel <@t> mirnarx.com; histotech <@t> imagesbyhopper.com;
rosenfeldtek <@t> hotmail.com
Cc: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?


We use a razor blade scraper but we turn it around and use the dull
side.
 

> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:59:21 -0500
> From: sgoebel <@t> mirnarx.com
> To: histotech <@t> imagesbyhopper.com; rosenfeldtek <@t> hotmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?
> CC: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> 
> You can buy this type of thing too if you aren't the McGiver type. For
> instance...from American Mastertech item # CPW04200E
> 
> Sarah Goebel-Dysart, BA, HT(ASCP)
> Histotechnologist
> Mirna Therapeutics
> 2150 Woodward Street
> Suite 100
> Austin, Texas 78744
> (512)901-0900 ext. 6912
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of
> histotech <@t> imagesbyhopper.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:50 PM
> To: JR R
> Cc: <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Keeping Histo room floor clean?
> 
> We don't keep it off the floor, but do use a wide-bladed putty knife
> attached to a mop handle to scrape the residual wax off the floor. It
> woks quite nicely and doesn't remove the actual floor wax like a razor
> blade scrapper would.
> 
> Michelle
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:44 PM, JR R <rosenfeldtek <@t> hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > We keep getting a lot of paraffin on the floor of one histo
> room--especially around the microtome and the embedding station.
> > 
> > Short of laying down a tarp, what do folks do keep wax off of the
> floor?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jerry Ricks
> > Research Scientist
> > University of Washington
> > Department of Pathology
> >
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