[meteorite-list] question for thin section collectors

From: STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com <STARSANDSCOPES_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:59:39 EST
Message-ID: <cdb.48812473.3692a76b_at_aol.com>

Hi Leigh Anne, I'm answering on list so any one can correct me if I am not
accurate in my assessment.

First, a standard biological microscope slide is 1" X 3" or 25 mm X 75 mm.
A standard petrographic slide is 25 mm X 45 mm. Quite a bit shorter!

I have a large pile of petrographic slides (Meteorite thin sections) that I
keep in those plastic cases Mike Tettenborn just posted about. I like the
cases but I have often looked for a cool slide box fitted to the smaller
petrographic slides.

I have found many biological slide boxes.

It would seem to me that the meteorite community would enjoy a quality
petrographic slide box.

Also, and this is just a personal observation, I would think that the
collectors with a quantity of slides, worth hundreds and at times thousands each,
would appreciate a beautiful work of art and not just an other box. I have
found some vintage black bake light boxes in the smaller size but that is about
as cool as I could come up with after a lot of searching.

The great old wood Victorian Microscope slide boxes are almost entirely the
larger size. Post the list if he makes any!!!

Tom

In a message dated 1/4/2009 4:30:53 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
delraygoddess at yahoo.com writes:


I was wondering if anyone could tell me the typical way that thin sections
are collected. I know that they are on microscope slides, but do people
typically keep those slides in an old microscope slide box, or drawer of some sort?
Is there a protective type case that is typical of thin section collectors?
My boyfriend is a custom woodworker, and it trying to figure out a way to
build a storage case for these.
Thanks in advance,
Leigh Anne DelRay



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