The TP1050 has a paraffin cleaning cycle.  It draws the paraffin into the
retort and uses heat and pressure to force the xylene out of the paraffin.
It is supposed to extend the life of the paraffin.

> ----------
> From: 	Gayle Callis[SMTP:uvsgc@msu.oscs.montana.edu]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 28, 2000 5:17 AM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	RE: Paraffin cleaning
> 
> I'm lost here!  By paraffin cleaning function, do you mean cleaning the
> PROCESSOR after the run is finished, using xylene or another clearant??
> 
> 1.  We CLEAN the paraffin out of  VIP processor before a new run, using
> xylene in an enclosed system, never tried Clearite 3 or Propar, mainly
> because of expense.  Guess this could be called the (paraffin?) cleaning
> cycle  
> 
> 2.  We rotate the paraffins, the first one comes out, rotate the second
> down etc when paraffin is contaminated by too much clearant (carryover)
> but
> this is, in a technical sense, accessing cleaner paraffin.  We have no way
> to remove or clean clearant from the melted paraffin (disposed of
> instead).
>  I guess I have never referred to this practice as cleaning paraffin, if
> that is what is being alluded to.  
> 
> Could just be a dense fog day here and a bit of semantics.   
> 
> Gayle Callis
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:03:51 -0800
> >From: "MacDonald, Jennifer" <jmacdonald@sach.org>
> >Subject: RE: Paraffin cleaning
> >To: HistoNet Server <HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu>, 'Scott Taft'
> >    <ss336@yahoo.com>
> >
> >We use Xylene Substitue (Histosolve) and the paraffin cleaning function
> does
> >NOT adequately clean the paraffin.  We stopped using it and just rotate
> the
> >paraffins more often.
> >
> >
> >Jennifer MacDonald
> >San Antonio Community Hospital
> >Upland, CA  91786
> >(909) 985-2811 ext. 4148
> >jmacdonald@sach.org
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From: 	Scott Taft[SMTP:ss336@yahoo.com]
> >> Sent: 	Monday, March 27, 2000 11:07 AM
> >> To: 	HistoNet Server
> >> Subject: 	Paraffin cleaning
> >> 
> >> Good Monday (or whenever you get this) to you
> >> Histonetters!
> >> 
> >> For those of you who:
> >>   1)Use the paraffin cleaning function on your tissue
> >>     processor
> >>   2)Use Xylene substitute on your processor
> >> 
> >> Have you been able to clean your paraffin adequately?
> >> 
> >> Mucho thanks,
> >> Scott Taft HT(ASCP)
> >> Ventana Medical/Tucson AZ
> >> 
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