[3dem] low-humidity workstation (glovebox)? Any experience?

[Tobias Furstenhaupt]

Dear colleagues,

we have a dedicated cryo prep room that has a controlled (low) humidty. We will use it to clip autogrids and the room contains also our Cryo-LM. But we want to reduce potential contamination on grids during preparation even more and thought of an (ownbuilt) glovebox (something like in the attached image). An enclosure is one part - but flooding it with 'dry' gas is another question. 
Does anybody of you have something installed and what is your experience? We want to keep it as simple (and cheap) as possible? Is it worth the effort? What gas you use to flood it? Do you try to dry it somehow?
 
thanks alot in advance
Tobias 


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Tobias Fürstenhaupt, PhD 
head of Electron Microscopy 
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) 
Pfotenhauerstrasse 108 
01307 Dresden, Germany 

mail: furstenh at mpi-cbg.de 
phone: (+49) (0)351 210-2690 
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