Coating and Polishing Microforge

Increase efficiency and lower the cost of patch pipette production by using ALA's CPM-2 Coating and Polishing Microforge. The CPM-2 is designed to be a complete system for processing pulled patch pipettes. It is available as a kit that mounts on a microscope or as a complete system with an inverted microscope.

Coating and Polishing Microforge

Increase efficiency and lower the cost of patch pipette production by using ALA's CPM-2 Coating and Polishing Microforge. The CPM-2 is designed to be a complete system for processing pulled patch pipettes. It is available as a kit that mounts on a microscope or as a complete system with an inverted microscope.

Features of CPM-2

• Available as kit to mount on inverted scope with fixed stage.
• Available as complete system that includes inverted microscope with parfocal optics.
• Coating and polishing on one instrument; transferring pipettes unnecessary.
• Pressure polishing accessories to produce small tip low-resistance pipettes.
• Convenient control of heat timing with foot-pedal switch.
• Heating and air pressure controls conveniently located in one unit.
• Micrometers on manipulator axes for rapid and convenient pipette positioning.
• Electrode holder can be rotated in place for convenient, even coating of pipettes.

CPM-2 kit

Most inverted microscopes can be converted into a tip processing forge using the CPM-2 kit. As an economical alternative to other microforges, the CPM-2 can turn any unused microscope into a convenient and useful tool.

To use the CPM-2 kit with your own microscope the following is required: A fixed stage, X-Y stage manipulator for standard microscope slides, low power (4x or 6x) and high power (20x to 40x) objectives.(High power should be long working distance type). The components of the CPM-2 are a pipette holder that is held by the stage X-Y manipulator, an air jet with heating element for curing silicone, a polishing filament with its own X-Y-Z manipulator, protective covers for the low and high power objectives and a control box. (An X-Y positioner for the pipette can be supplied)

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