The Bioptechs objective heater I used a few years ago worked very well.  The
only complaint I had was that you had to use some black gooey stuff to stick
the heater to the objective, which made the task of switching to other
objectives a little messy.   My guess is that Dan Fochts has made
improvements to the design since then.  He's very responsive to customers.

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> From:         Mary Teruel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Confocal Microscopy List
> Sent:         Monday, June 22, 1998 11:55 AM
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> Subject:      Bioptechs objective heater/INSTEC warm stage
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> Hi - I was wondering what people thought of the Bioptechs objective
> heater. I would like to use it in combination with an INSTEC WS60
> Microscope Warm Stage System to keep my cells at 37deg on an inverted
> microscope. I view my cells by placing the glass coverslips into
> reusuable metal chambers (about the size of a Petri dish) purchased from
> Molecular Probes.
>     If anyone has had experience with the Bioptechs objective heaters
> and/or the INSTEC warm stage and wouldn't mind sharing it, I would really
> appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
>
> Mary Teruel
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