Re: Protective window for a confocal microscope?

Posted by Gary Laevsky on
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The hair ties work great with objectives that have enough of a neck for the
tie to sit on, next to the barrel.

Our 40X objective (most frequently used) has no/very small neck, so the
hair ties don't work.

I fairly regularly (bi-weekly) have to take the objective off, store it in
it's case upside down, and put it in a 37C oven.  Ridiculous, in a bad way,
how much oil comes out.  The 40X also doesn't have "lip" that acts as a bit
of a reservoir (unlike the 60 and 100).

On one of my heavily used systems, I have to go so far as to dismantle the
top (stage, objective turret, and fluorescent turret) to get to the piece
of glass that prevents leakage into the body (amazingly awesome feature of
the stand).  Takes me 15 minutes.  Although I shouldn't have to do that ...

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:13 AM Cammer, Michael <
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> Aquastop works well for big spills when installed correctly and has proven
> effective on some of our Zeiss scopes.  But we did have a user who spilled
> over or around it on our Zeiss 710, so it is not foolproof.
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> Hair elastics are great for the oil.
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> I would highly recommend the aquastop system from Zeiss. It is overpriced
> for some pieces of plastic, but it forms a very tight seal and pays for
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> fingers/condoms which we used in the past.
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> Dear All,
> I am considering a purchase of a protective window for our Zeiss LSM800
> and I would like to hear your advice whether this is a good idea, and if
> yes, which one to buy.
> The reason is our LSM800 is on an inverted stand and we already got a
> leakage of oil once which went down onto Optovar. And this was despite my
> regular checks of objectives (both sides) for leaking oil and extensive
> education of users on how important it is not to use too much oil and to
> clean lenses, especially on inverted stands.
> Zeiss Observer has a dummy slider with an opening for 32 mm filters. I
> hope, a protective window there should stop the oil, if the leakage happens
> again.
> 1) do you think placing a protective window in a confocal microscope is a
> good idea or not really, because the imaging will be affected? This would
> be in infinity space, so I guess it should not be detrimental....
> 2) which characteristics of protective window I should take into
> consideration (substrate, thickness, coating, flatness, surface quality,
> parallelism)? Currently I am inclined into protective glasses by Edmund
> Optics such as 1-mm thick MgF2-coated Sapphire window, which has high
> transmission, or 2-mm thick MgF2-coated B270 window, which has a bit worse
> transmission but better surface parameters (and is much cheaper).
> best regards,
> Tomasz
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> Tomasz Wegierski, PhD
> International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
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