[Histonet] Detached vinyl coverslips - any advice on reattachment?

[Gordon Brown]

I should have mentioned that the section invariably remains attached to these vinyl coverslips when they become detached from the slides. If they had remained on the slides we wouldn't have a problem as we are used to restoring much older, Victorian slides that use Canada Balsam as a mountant. In this instance our options are obviously limited by lack of understanding how the coverslips are applied and that coverslipping sysrem works.

Gordon




-------- Original message --------
From: Paula Keene Pierce <paula at excaliburpathology.com> 
Date:15/11/2018  21:45  (GMT+00:00) 
To: Gordon Brown <gordon at 10db.co.uk> 
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Detached vinyl coverslips - any advice on reattachment? 

Hi,

you will need to soak those in acetone to remove the plastic coverslip.

Then you can coverslip as usual with glass and resin.
 
Paula Keene Pierce, BS, HTL(ASCP)HT
President
Excalibur Pathology, Inc.
5830 N Blue Lake Drive
Norman, OK 73069
PH 405-759-3953
www.excaliburpathology.com


From: Gordon Brown via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
To: histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:15 PM
Subject: [Histonet] Detached vinyl coverslips - any advice on reattachment?

I'm an amateur microscopist and along with a couple of fellow club members
we have acquired a fairly extensive collection of histopathology slides
(approx. 2500 slides) made in the early 2000s and used for seminar and
lecture purposes. We intend to use these to further our knowledge and
interest in histopathology and the majority of the slides are in superb
condition for this purpose and reasonably well documented. However,
approximately 300 to 400 of the slides are suffering from detachment of the
coverslip, these coverslips being made of what I assume to be vinyl, and we
are attempting to reattach them. Can anyone advise how this type of
coverslip was attached in the first instance? I'm assuming this was done
using an automatic coverslipper, but there's no easily visible trace of
mountant on either the slide or the coverslip so they may be self-adhesive
or use a heat activated adhesive. Each coverslip is 55.4mm x 24.1mm.



Hope someone can help, if we know how they were attached in the first
instance this may give us some ideas for a strategy for reattachment.



Regards

Gordon

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