[3dem] tweezers for vitobot

[Matt Swulius]

Hi Isabelle,

I don't have any experience with mounting my own tweezers, but $6,000 seems
wrong if you are talking about US dollars. Ted Pella sells vitrobot tweezers
for $645 US.

http://www.tedpella.com/vitrobot_html/vitrobot.htm

Matt


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Matthew T. Swulius

Postdoc, Jensen Lab

California Institute of Technology

Mail Code 114-96

1200 E. California Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91125

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Isabelle Rouiller <
isabelle.rouiller at mcgill.ca> wrote:

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> Does anyone had any luck with homemade tweezers for the vitrobot?****
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> We got a quote of 6,000 $ per tweezer from FEI. This is ridiculous since
> each tweezer without the mount cost 58 $.****
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> Any technical advise an how to mount  them?****
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> Thanks****
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> Isabelle****
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> Isabelle Rouiller, Ph.D.****
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