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Hi Christina,

Which microscope model do you have? We have the DMRXA2 on our SP2 and it has a manual shutter in addition to the motorised one.

Kind regards,

Jacqui

Jacqueline Ross 
Biomedical Imaging Microscopist
Biomedical Imaging Research Unit 
School of Medical Sciences 
Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences 
The University of Auckland 
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Fellow Microphotographers,

The shutter for the widefield fluorescent light on our Leica SP2 confocal is broken. It uses a standard HBO mercury bulb, so no apertures or Xcite shuttering is available on the system. Since the microscope is an older model, were having a tough time getting a replacement from the vendor, that works. They sent us one, which was defective (last inspected in 2007) and theyre having a tough time finding another one for us.

We discussed having a simple pull and push shutter system built, since its easy enough to do I suppose and perhaps even purchasing an Xcite with the idea of applying it to a different microscope when the SP2 eventually died (which might be sooner than later unfortunately). Before going through all of that, I thought that it might be worth a shot to just try and see if anyone has recently decommissioned an SP2 confocal, or perhaps purchased an Xcite for their system. If anyone has a spare shutter from the original set up of their microscope laying around and wouldnt mind donating it to our facility, we would very much appreciate it. Please just reply to this message and I would be happy to send along our information for shipping. We would obviously pay for the shipping and any out of pocket costs.

Thank you,
Christina Polumbo

Analytical Imaging Facility
Albert Einstein College of Medicine