We have the saw from Mopec.  Our Docs love it.  It gives great sections of
uniform thickness.

Jennifer MacDonald
San Antonio Community Hospital
Upland, CA 91786
(909) 985-2811 extension 4148

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> From: 	Jim Hall[SMTP:rmkdhjh@ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 	Monday, October 11, 1999 4:07 AM
> To: 	Histopatty@aol.com; HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Bone Saw
> 
> Patty,
> 
> I can offer you three suggestions for you to try regarding the use of your
> scroll saw in cutting femoral heads:
> 
> 1.  Try #5 Precision Ground Teeth (PGT) blades manufactured by OLSON in
> the
> States or their #2 range.
> 
> 2.  Experiment with spiral scroll saw blades.
> 
> 3.  Junior hacksaw blades can also be fitted to a scroll saw but you may
> have to cut them down to 5 inches in length.  The blades come in two
> types,
> one for cutting wood and the other for cutting metal.
> 
> I saw at our BMS conference here in the UK a new gadget for cutting thin
> slices of femoral head.  It consists of a clamping device to hold the head
> and a guide into which you introduce a hacksaw.  The hacksaw differs in
> that this one takes two blades running parallel and separated from each
> other by a small gap thus providing the means to cut thin slices through
> the femoral head.  I would strongly advise you to contact your MOPEC
> representative for details.  Sorry I can't supply their address in the
> States, but if you are stuck I am sure I could find out for you.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> Jim.
> 
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> At 11:24 10/10/99 EDT, Histopatty@aol.com wrote:
> >Recently, one of our pathologist instructed us to buy a Scroll Saw so
> that
> we 
> >would be safer cutting femoral head. (Our current method; using a Large 
> >butchers ban saw tends to throw head at a great speed when you loose your
> 
> >grip.  Ouch!!  Not to mention the risk of loosing a digit ) The problem
> with 
> >the new saw, is that the blades for this saw are very thin 2-3mm and the 
> >sections are jagged, when we replaced the blades with a thicker blade
> (6-7mm) 
> >we are not able to adjust the tension tight enough to utilize it.  Also
> the 
> >biomed department thinks we will not find a blade that will work.  The
> Saw 
> >was ordered along with a variety of blades that range from metal cutting
> to 
> >softer material cutting blades.  The pathologist swears that a similar
> saw 
> >was used at Johns Hopkins, where he did his residency. Any help on ways
> to 
> >utilize this saw would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
> >
> >Patty Eneff
> >OKC, OK
> >
> >
> >
> Jim Hall,
> MDA Equipment Evaluator,
> Department of Histopathology,
> University College London Hospitals,
> Rockefeller Building,
> University Street,
> London, WC1E 6JJ.
> Tel.No. 0171 209 6042
> Fax 0171 387 3674
>