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...you could charge a "clean up" fee, that would get their attention.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Immersion Oil Mess
The women's hair band trick everyone has mentioned works great.
Another thing to enforce is proper clean-up discipline. I personally teach everyone the correct method for cleaning up after themselves and enforce the 'clean up PROPERLY' when you are done rule.
Another good thing is to use thicker oils. They run less. Type B is essential for inverted scopes as it is much thicker than type A. I have also used type 37 on heated lenses which is thicker still. For the Cargille brand it is possible to mix these three types together with no chemical harm, although you will probably have some slight degradation in optical performance of the oil if large amounts are mixed together.
Craig
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Eric Marino <
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> We put felt rings over our objective and that keeps all of the oil off
> the nosepiece. If the diameter is similar to the Zeiss objectives I
> will send you a couple.
>
> Eric Marino
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:28 AM
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> Hi
>
> Our facility have a few confocals and wide-fields, and despite how
> many reminders we send, or how many notices we put up, we haven't
> solved the problems of some users using too much immersion oil and
> causing very messy objectives.
>
> Zeiss sell "immersion suction rings" which are useful on our Zeiss,
> but we've got two Leica SP5s, which tend to be the messiest. Does
> anyone have a solution for messy objectives?
>
> Thanks!!
> Ki
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