Leica Biosystems SM2500 - Manual (Page 40)

40 Instruction manual V 1.3 – 10/2007
5.5.2 Clamping specimens or specimen
stages in the base plate
with vise clamp
In the base plate with vise you can ei-
ther directly clamp specimen blocks or
specimen stages holding specimen
embeddings.
Clamping square specimen blocks
The vise is equipped with two clamping jaws: a
fixed jaw (1) and a movable jaw (2) the position of
which can be changed. Both have a V-notch on
one side.
• The fixed jaw (1) remains in its standard posi-
tion (V-notch facing outwards, i.e. away from
the specimen).
• Insert the movable jaw (2) in a position that is
appropriate for the specimen size to be
clamped, also with the V-notch facing out-
wards (away from the specimen).
• Insert the specimen block.
• Tighten the movable clamping jaw via clamp-
ing screw (3), using an Allen key, size 8 or a
single-head wrench, size 13.
Important - for square as well as for
cylindrical specimen blocks:
When the specimen block is tightly
clamped, the front edge of block (4)
must not have moved beyond the two
lateral markings (5).
5. Operation
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3 5 4
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