RE: cryostat frost build up woes
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From: | "Horn, Hazel" <HornHazelV@exchange.ach.uams.edu> |
To: | 'Gayle Callis' <uvsgc@msu.oscs.montana.edu>, histonet@pathology.swmed.edu |
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I too have a Cryocut 1800 and we have the same problem. In fact, it's
more than frost it's and actual build up of ice!!!! We turn it off for
a weekend about every 2-3 months and let it completely thaw and dry out.
It's not a perfect solution but it works for us.
Hazel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gayle Callis [SMTP:uvsgc@msu.oscs.montana.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 08:46 AM
> To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: cryostat frost build up woes
>
> In Montana, land of little humidity, we suffer from same frost buildup in
> our Cryocut 1800 as you do. We live with it, and defrost/clean cryostat
> more often. I get a glacier of ice build up in the back of microtome big
> enough to cause the moving parts of microtome to bump into it. High usage
> is the biggest problem with steamy hands, etc in the machine. We try to
> minimize keeping the sliding door open when not working in the chamber.
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> One thing we have done is make sure the fans, etc on innards of cryostat
> are free of dust. DO THIS DURING CLEANING OF MACHINE. Take back off the
> cryostat AFTER UNPLUGGING and blow dust out with compressed air. We had
> temperature flucuations one time, but do this about once a year to insure
> cooling (as with refrigerators!) is not impeded with dust bunny build up.
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> Gayle Callis
> Veterinary Molecular Biology
> Montana State University
> Bozeman MT 59717-3610
> 406 994-4705
> 406 994-4303
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