Mobile Heat Extractor - Application; Cold Extractor - Application - Leica CM1860 Instructions For Use Manual

10. Ordering Information, Components and Consumables
10.2 Mobile heat extractor –
Fig. 118
10.3 Cold extractor –
5
6
7
Fig. 119
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application
Specimen freezing with the freezing shelf can be accelerated by the ad-
ditional use of a heat extractor.
• Store the heat extractor in the cryochamber.
• Place it on the specimen surface to accelerate freezing.
• Remove it once the specimen is entirely frozen.
Recommendation:
It is recommended to precool the heat extractor in liquid nitrogen or
other refrigerant.
application
The thermal block (8) facilitates the removal of the frozen specimen from
the specimen disc.
Keep the thermal block outside the cryochamber at room tempera-
ture. Place it in the cryochamber only for specimen removal.
Position the speci-
men here using
forceps
8
9
10
• Place the cap (9) on the required side, so that
the appropriate location hole for the specimen
disc is visible.
• Fit the pin (6) of the specimen disc (5) into the
corresponding bore (7) on the cold extractor.
• After about 20 seconds, the frozen specimen
can be removed from the specimen disc with
forceps.
• If the cap is too loose, readjust it with the small
screw (10).
Do not overtighten the screw.
• After removing the specimen, remove the cold
extractor from the cold cryochamber once
again.
Instructions for Use V 1.6 RevI – 10/2016