[3dem] new FEI Vitrobot tweezers problem

[Thorsten Mielke]

Hi,

if one's buying a pair of tweezers for how many .... $1700 .... they 
should work. If not, they should be replaced by the vendor!

Alternatively: If I look to ours (older Vitrobot II), it is a Dumont L5 
tweezers mounted to a piece of metal. This type of tweezers is about 
35-50 Euros .... If you have a reasonably good mechanical workshop, for 
them it shouldn't be a big deal to mount them into the piece of metal 
coming with the Vitrobot, grinding the tip a bit ... Sorry, but the 
price is ..... amazing.

Thorsten



On 07.10.2016 10:00, Christos Savva wrote:
> Hi
>
> The black slider behaves a little differently depending on which side 
> you slide it on because the opening is slightly different on either 
> side of the black slider. You can try reversing it however this is not 
> a big difference and may not solve your issue.
> Regards
> Christos
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Bullitt, Esther <bullitt at bu.edu 
> <mailto:bullitt at bu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Wim and all,
>
>     I spoke to Linda Melanson who also said that the black plastic
>     should just slide, so with greater force than I was comfortable
>     giving, they are now functional, albeit very stiff.
>
>     Thank you!
>     On Oct 6, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Wim Hagen <hagen at embl.de
>     <mailto:hagen at embl.de>> wrote:
>
>     > Dear Esther,
>     >
>     > They should be good to go out of the box, that's how I received
>     ours (2) some years ago.
>     >
>     > I know FEI reads this list, so Thermal Fishy folks, step in
>     please! :-)
>     >
>     > Best,
>     >
>     > Wim
>     >
>     >> On Oct 6, 2016, at 21:43, Bullitt Esther <bullitt at bu.edu
>     <mailto:bullitt at bu.edu>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> I cannot get my brand new Vitrobot tweezers to open their tines.
>     >>
>     >> For $1700, I do not want to force the black slider any more
>     than I already have tried. Perhaps they lock something so that
>     when they ship them not in a box, they do not break?
>     >>
>     >> Calling FEI has not succeeded, as the person on the phone
>     simply took my phone number.
>     >>
>     >> Is there a first-time trick?
>     >>
>     >> thanks,
>     >> Esther
>     >>
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