Dear Histoman,

The knife Moves on the sliding microtome  and the specimen moves on a sledge microtome to section.

The sledge microtome is able to section larger and hard specimens.

Best regards

Alan Bright

Bright Instrument Co. Ltd.
St. Margaret's Way
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 6EU
England

Tel: +44(0) 1480 454528/451980/451499
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Email: ABright@Brightinstruments.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: histoman@attbi.com [mailto:histoman@attbi.com]
Sent: 13 May 2003 13:26
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: sliding vs sledge

I would like to take a survey.

What is the difference between a sliding microtome and a sledge microtome ?

Does one move the knife and the other move the specimen ?

What is the advantage to a sliding over a sledge or vice versa ?

Does anyone use either one or the other on a regular basis ?

Thanks !