Mary,
BB is the german abbriviation for "Berliner Blau", that is prussian blue in English.
Do you think, it is saving of time to do part of the stains on the nexes and the others by hand? 
Are the advantages of a standardized stain so big in spite of doing all by hand?
Gudrun 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MARY T HODGES 
  To: gudrun.lang@aon.at 
  Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:56 PM
  Subject: RE: [Histonet] nexes stainer


  Gudrun,

  I think bb you mean brown and brinm. I would do pas,tri,retic joneson the stainer.do as many as possible on the stainer. The reproducablity is great.I would only do the stains that the instrument would not do by hand.

  Thanks

  Tere Hodges



  >From: "Gudrun Lang" 
  >To: "Histonetliste" 
  >Subject: [Histonet] nexes stainer 
  >Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:34:19 +0100 
  > 
  >A question to those, who work with the nexes special stainer: 
  >We are going to test the nexes. We have max. 20 slides to stain per day. For example 8 PAS, 3 CAB (trichrom), 3 NASD, 3 BB, 2 Retic., 3 Jones-Methenamin and so on. 
  >And some of the stains can't be performed on the nexes. 
  >Doing it by hand we need most of the time about 1 to 1,5  hours in the morning. 
  > 
  >Can you give me an advice, what amount of stains per day makes sense to use an automatic stainer like the nexes? 
  >And how long do you need from preparing the slides until the ready stains.? 
  > 
  >Thanks in advance 
  >Gudrun Lang, Austria 
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