Leica 14051454200, Instructions For Use Manual

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HistoCore SPECTRA CV
Daily Instrument Setup
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Fig. 71
4. The gripper picks up the rack once again and places it in the elevator.
5. The elevator moves the rack into the position of the first slide.
6. The shifter transports the slide out of the rack to the coverslipping position with the shifter
tongue.
7. During this movement, the needle applies the mounting medium to the slide.
8. At the same time, the Pick&Place module removes coverglass from the coverglass cartridge and
transports it over the slide covered with mounting media and places the coverglass on the slide.
9. The lay-down movement provides for the uniform distribution of the mounting medium on the
slide.
10. Afterwards, the shifter pushes the coverslipped slide back to its original position in the rack.
11. The elevator moves to the next slide, which the shifter transports to the coverslipping position.
Note
In order to prevent slides from drying out during processing, the first 5 slides are always coverslipped
first. Then the rack moves upwards and continues coverslipping with the last slide in the rack
(
→
Fig. 74) .
12. This sequence (steps 6 to 11) is repeated until all slides in the rack have been coverslipped.
13. When all slides are coverslipped, the elevator moves the rack downwards into the instrument.
14. The gripper removes the rack from the elevator and transports it into the oven to dry.
15. When the drying time period is complete, the rack is transported out of the oven and into the
unload drawer by the gripper, and is put down in one of the three rear positions.
16. The user will be notified via an information message and can carefully remove the rack out of
the unload drawer.