We are on our second stainer and have had no problems such as this. Have you
called DAKO? They are always very helpful with what problems we do
experience.
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Charnell.E.Jones@questdiagnostics.com
[SMTP:Charnell.E.Jones@questdiagnostics.com]
	Sent:	Monday, March 26, 2001 2:38 PM
	To:	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
	Subject:	Dako Autostainer



	The IHC department at our laboratory has been experiencing several
difficulties
	with their DAKO autostainer, and wanted me to see if anyone else in
histoland
	has had these problems and what they did to correct them besides the
obvious of
	contacting Technical support. The autostainer is not applying
reagents within
	the racks. For example 3 of the 12 slides may not be stained with
the
	hematoxylin.  Also, there is carry-over. These problems have been
occuring with
	no error messages on the run log. Any feedback would be greatly
appreciated.

	Charnell E. Jones, B.S., HTL(ASCP)