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[Romin, Yevgeniy/Sloan Kettering Institute]

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Hello everybody

This is more of a core facility/shared equipment operations question, rather then a microscopy question, but everybody has been very helpful in the past.

I am looking for suggestions how people maintain their systems/computers in a sanitized state, since quite a lot of people use them for many different experiments.  We currently use 70 percent ethanol to disinfect our microscope stages, cage incubators and computer parts like keyboard and mouse.  Does anybody have any better suggestions for this?  Like some sort of a commercially available disinfecting spray that can be used on computers as well as imaging systems?  If any of you are just willing to share how you maintain your equipment so we can get some ideas, that would be greatly appreciated as well.

Thanks so much in advance,

Yevgeniy Romin
 
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My idea was to leave the original bags on the keyboards, NOT allow people to come with gloves (as this implies that they have dangerous stuff all around the samples) so they have to be so cautious with the systems as with them selfs. The monitors keep their original acetate or we purchase one of the size that is easier to clean as everybody likes to touch images on screen. The mouse pad is also in a tight plastic bag easy to clean, the binocular plastic cover is washed every week, the keys in the microscope control board is also inside a plastic bag. The user is in charge of cleaning the driping oil or substances from their samples before leaving so they have to be careful or take the proper care to the substances they have brought. Mouse it self is a hard part as you cant easily plastify that. I hope this helps. Regards and happiness Gabriel OH    > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:24:25 -0400

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> This is more of a core facility/shared equipment operations question, rather then a microscopy question, but everybody has been very helpful in the past.
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> I am looking for suggestions how people maintain their systems/computers in a sanitized state, since quite a lot of people use them for many different experiments.  We currently use 70 percent ethanol to disinfect our microscope stages, cage incubators and computer parts like keyboard and mouse.  Does anybody have any better suggestions for this?  Like some sort of a commercially available disinfecting spray that can be used on computers as well as imaging systems?  If any of you are just willing to share how you maintain your equipment so we can get some ideas, that would be greatly appreciated as well.
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> Thanks so much in advance,
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> Yevgeniy Romin
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