>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:01:16 -0500
>From: "McCollough, Carol" <CMCCOLLOUGH@dnr.state.md.us>
>Subject: Cryostat
>To: "'histonet'" <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
>Cc: "Gieseker, Charlie" <CGIESEKER@dnr.state.md.us>
>
>Hi Histonetters:
>
>I am posting this for a colleague.  Please send your replies to Charlie
>Gieseker at cgieseker@dnr.state.md.us.
>
>His lab is in the market for a cryostat.  Do any of you have
>recommendations?  Vendor replies are welcome as well.
>
>Thanks -
>Carol
>*****************
>Carol B. McCollough, HT(ASCP)
>Diagnostics & Histology Laboratory Manager
>Maryland Department of Natural Resources
>Fisheries Service
>Cooperative Oxford Laboratory
>904 S. Morris Street
>Oxford, MD 21654

Carol,
         Contact Alan Bright of Bright Cryostats, his latest instrument is 
a joy. Why am I so confident.
1.) My 1974 Bright cryostat is still perfect.
2.) Service record. It doesn't have one, the instrument has never gone 
down. After 26 years this must be a bit of a record.
3.) Maintenance. Apart from an internal clean, nothing.
4.) The original guide plate is still in use. How many other manufacturers 
can make that claim.
5.) Anything I don't like, it's to bloody reliable, I want the latest version.
Ian.


Dr. Ian Montgomery,
West Medical Building,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow,
G12 8QQ.
Tel: 0141 339 8855 Extn 6602
Fax: 0141 330 2923
e-mail: ian.montgomery@bio.gla.ac.uk