practical help with ringing please
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:45 pm
I am trying to make semi-permanent preps by melting bees-wax rings. So far without much success. I could do with some practical advice.
The main problem seems to bee that when I melt the wax, the cover slip gets sucked to the slide, either squeezing out the mountant (glycerin) or equally spreading the molten wax everywhere (dry preparations). I don't recall these issues from a couple of decades ago when I routinely made permanent slides by ringing them. I must have done that differently then, but the only thing I can come up with is that at that time we used a stamp to set the ring and now I use a ringing table.
The main problem seems to bee that when I melt the wax, the cover slip gets sucked to the slide, either squeezing out the mountant (glycerin) or equally spreading the molten wax everywhere (dry preparations). I don't recall these issues from a couple of decades ago when I routinely made permanent slides by ringing them. I must have done that differently then, but the only thing I can come up with is that at that time we used a stamp to set the ring and now I use a ringing table.