[3dem] new FEI Vitrobot tweezers problem
Thorsten Mielke
mielke at molgen.mpg.de
Fri Oct 7 04:50:34 PDT 2016
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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