Re: microtome

Kevin Cunningham schrieb/wrote:
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>>> Buy
>>> the blades either disposable or non-disposable from Leica or someone
>> really
>>> knowledgable.
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>> Are Leica's blades (or others) usable whit 820 microtome? There are
>> universal blades? The 820 microtome will work well whit other blades?
>> Thanks
>>
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> Leica blades and others are usable with the 820. I'll get the part number
> tomorow and post it. The 820 will work with most types of blades and
> techniques however its at its best with a paraffin embedded specimen. If
> you are buying blades in the US my histo friends prefer blades made at the
> Gillete plant in Virginia. They would spend a few days a year making all
> the disposable blades for Leica. Now they are made in Nueslock, Germany and
> just not as good as they used to be.
> PS This is what I heard while drinking with my histo friends so in vino
> veritas.

Hello Kevin,

maybe your histo-friends just wanted to be funny, or maybe they had
one or two glasses of wine too much.

Those knives are not "NOW made in ..., but they have been made there
for more than a hundred years, and are still beeing made there - in
NUSSLOCH near Heidelberg. They are made in the same factory of the
former Company A. Jung AG, the famous microtome manufacturer, which
now belongs to the Concern Leica Microsystems. And they are still made
according to the same old quality principles by very skilled
specialists as ever.

I would certainly trust your histo-friends, but not over two glasses!

Greetings from "over there" in Bavaria!
Klaus Henkel
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