Microm HM 430 Sliding Microtome

Description

Microm HM 430 Sliding Microtome

The Thermo Scientific HM 430 Sliding Microtome is designed to section paraffin embedded and frozen sections in biological, botanical, and materials science applications.

It is designed with automatic or manual fine sectioning and features fast, comfortable, and non-tiring operation. The switch from manual to automatic is easily selectable. The length of the horizontal knife movement can be selected in accordance with the size of the specimen in order to activate the automatic specimen advance.

Includes a knife holder with integrated, movable knife guard, a knife carrier that glides along a maintenance-free precision cross-roller bearing system, an ergonomic handle for moving knife carrier, an integrated removable waste tray, and specimen fine orientation on X/Y-axes.

The Thermo Scientific HM 430’s sectioning range is 1 to 60µm and maximum specimen size is 80 x 60mm.

Includes dust cover and instruction manual.

Requires a standard specimen clamp (715480), available separately.

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