From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Mon Mar 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!aardvark.life.uiuc.edu!user From: a-schmi@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (aloisia schmid) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: Tungsten wire replies Date: 19 Mar 1996 02:39:41 GMT Organization: University of Illinois/Howard Hughes Med.Inst. Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <1774B81CES86.GECARNEY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: aardvark.life.uiuc.edu In article <1774B81CES86.GECARNEY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, GECARNEY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Ginger Carney) wrote: > I'd like to thank everyone who offered help on my request for a vendor for > tungsten wire. I'd like to share some of the replies which were most useful. > > Aldrich Biochemical stock #35,697-2 > (800)558-9160 > > Ernest F. Fullam, Inc. Ted Pella, Inc. > 900 Albany Shaker Rd. > Latham, NY 12110 > > Alfa Products World Precision Instruments, Inc. > Thiokol / Ventron Division 375 Quinnipac Ave. > 152 Andover St. New Haven,CT 06513 > Danvers, MA 01923 (203)469-8281 > > Thank you again. > Ginger Carney > > gecarney@uga.cc.uga.edu I'd like to ask a related question. How are people sharpening these wires? I keep borrowing an apparatus from someone down the hall, which incoporates a direct current power source, eletrical connections to the tungsten wire, and to a ground, and a saturated sodium nitrate (I think) solution as the corrosive buffer. But I find that to be so inconvenient. Is there a better way? Alice Schmid -- Aloisia Schmid Howard Huges Medical Institute/Morrill Hall University of Illinois 505 S. Goodwin Ave, 618 Morrill Hall Urbana, IL 61801 Email: A-schmi@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu .