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Polycut Legacy Heavy duty microtome Made of metal. Made for eternity. Made in Germany. Polycut Legacy Polycut Legacy High section thickness range Huge specimen size 4 motorized sectioning modes Control panel Control unit Foot switch Second screen Professional p

Polycut Legacy, 50/60 Hz Specifications microtome Specifications microtome Single, Continous, Interval and Section thickness 0 - 1,000 pm, Multi (selectable either to be range adjustable in 1-pm-steps Four motorized used via the control panel or sectioning modes the foot switch) Total horizontal Total vertical Knife retraction (during specimen Nominal voltage 110 - 240 V return stroke) 0 - 1,000 pm, adjustable Clearance angle Knife declination (with optional Maximum power draw max. 900 VA Maximum specimen size (w x d x h) 250 x 200 x 70 mm Overvoltage category II Specimen orientation Specimen...

Overview Knife holders, clamps & paraffin tables Knife holders Knife holder KH-P for parallel-sided full tungsten carbide knives Knife holder KH-P 45 with declination blocks for long pulling cuts at 45° to section even the hardest materials Knife holder KH-S for all standard knives or like seen in this picture with our insert D-I for all disposable low profile blades up to 22 cm width Knife holder KH-S 45 for all standard knives with 45° declination blocks for more tricky paraffin sections A wide range of equipment supports you in the application. 6 Polycut Legacy

for specimen up to 80 x 100 mm, with top jaws for high specimen • equipped with V-inserts for round specimen for different diameters • it is the base to clamp all paraffin tables • lateral movement to benefit from the whole width of the knife • x/y-orientation in every direction Object clamp • lateral movement to benefit from the whole width of the knife • x/y-orientation in every direction Round clamp Insert D-TC for the Knife holder KH-P to clamp disposable tungsten carbide knives up to a width of 8 cm

Everything at a glance on the second screen Control unit Everything at a glance on the control unit. Fast alignment of the specimen to the knife with the dedicated touch screen for knife / sledge movements • lluminated buttons for Start, Pause and Stop that symbolize the actual state in the sectioning process • Dedicated turnbutton for the sectioning feed for a quick change of values • Dedicated turnbutton to change the sectioning speed Polycut Legacy

Second screen • • • • • • • Sectioning window Stop-position as selected Sectioning feed Retraction feed Cutting speed Return speed Sectioning modes: Single, Continous, Interval or Multi Cuts (with a preselected amount of sections) Professional photo-position Optional foot switch Acquire microscope pictures or surface photographs of oversectioned specimen by mounting some optional equipment on top Plug-in a 6.3 mm jackplug and control it through the software. Foot switch with integrated emergency-stop function. Safety features Illuminated buttons Big emergency-stop button for your safety. Start,...

LN2 liquid nitrogen Customized solutions: Paraffin tables can be turned into cryostages so fresh biological native specimen can be sectioned at ambient temperature. Each of our clamps can be turned into cryostages so e.g. foam or leather can be sectioned right at their glasspoint. Highlights • Automatic advanced programmable LN2 microdosing system with PC controlled software • Pressure-less flowing LN2, without spilling, noise, vibrations etc. • 35 l dewar included • Microdosing pump with flow-control from some drops up to 1 l/min • All connectors and cables included • Your customized cryostage...

Knives & resharpening service Carbide knives Full tungsten carbide knives parallell 16 cm 40° or 50°. Full tungsten carbide knives rotary 16 cm, D-edge or C-edge. Standard knives Standard knives from surgery steel 16, 22 and 30 cm, Dedge or C-edge. Disposable blades Disposable tungsten carbide blades TC65 with 65 mm width (5 pcs. per box). For more information please feel free to contact us directly. 11

The whole thing is of interest ... But the details should stay in focus! Whole body section of a mouse from a paraffin block: Multi acquisition picture from a microscope slidescan. Specimen up to 200 x 250 x 70 mm. Polycut Legacy

Sections of complete organs E.g. whole brains, eye bulbs etc. Whole brain section from a paraffin block for a later 3D stacking of microscope pictures for an organ reconstruction. Cross section a of complete eye bulb microscope picture from a slidescan of multi acquisition positions. 3D reconstruktion of whole organs with any number of serial sections.

Tissues Biological specimens When oversized or even hard tissues should be sectioned in one piece from paraffin, methyl-methacrylate or native like wood or bones with perfect sectioning results, it is time for the “Polycut Legacy”! Human kidney Human iliac crest Whole organ section from a paraffin block, stained TriPAS. Section from an iliac crest embedded in MMA, stained CD79a. Human kidney Human mamma Whole organ section from a paraffin block for cancer research, stained Vimentin. Whole organ section from a paraffin block for cancer research, stained Ki67. Human liver Human prostate gland Whole...

Tissues Tricky and hard When undersized microtomes are far beyond their limits, your research, your analysis and your target and goal is yet far away from being reached, then it is time for the next dimension of microtome, the ”Polycut Legacy”! Native section of an adult grapevine wood with a declinated section angle of 45°. Bone section from a methyl-methacrylat embedded block stained Movat Pentachrom.* Thigh bone Complete in paraffin embedded femur, thigh bone, sectioned and stained Alcian Blue for slidescan of multiple microscope pictures.* Section through a complete vertebrae bone with muscles,...