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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
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if one's buying a pair of tweezers for how many .... $1700 ....
they should work. If not, they should be replaced by the vendor!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thorsten<br>
<br>
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On 07.10.2016 10:00, Christos Savva wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:08 PM,
Bullitt, Esther <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bullitt@bu.edu" target="_blank">bullitt@bu.edu</a>></span>
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and all,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
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<div class="h5">On Oct 6, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Wim Hagen <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hagen@embl.de">hagen@embl.de</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> Dear Esther,<br>
><br>
> They should be good to go out of the box, that's
how I received ours (2) some years ago.<br>
><br>
> I know FEI reads this list, so Thermal Fishy folks,
step in please! :-)<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
><br>
> Wim<br>
><br>
>> On Oct 6, 2016, at 21:43, Bullitt Esther <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:bullitt@bu.edu">bullitt@bu.edu</a>>
wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I cannot get my brand new Vitrobot tweezers to
open their tines.<br>
>><br>
>> 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?<br>
>><br>
>> Calling FEI has not succeeded, as the person on
the phone simply took my phone number.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there a first-time trick?<br>
>><br>
>> thanks,<br>
>> Esther<br>
>><br>
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