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Thu Feb 15 16:38:02 EST 2024

Ah, but what about their associated paraffin blocks? I’ve yet to find anything suitable. Anyone else have any luck?

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I will chime in and say I also love those giant Delta design slide cabinets. They custom make everything so you can get the trays to hold whatever you need. I will comment that the "label holders" they put on the front of the trays are useless - notably because they don't hold paper well, and at the scale of a massive cabinet you can't read the labels above or below a certain height. Next time I order a cabinet I would have these done away with and have a simple smooth faced tray with a central pull tab. I've been using a label maker with adhesive labels which hold up great. I would also love it if they could design the trays to be slightly stackable - or at least not as precarious as they are now. You definitely can not transport two trays on top of eachother.

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 8:27 AM Meier, Gretchen <meierga at miamioh.edu<mailto:meierga at miamioh.edu>> wrote:
Thank you for this discussion, now I know what to do with my errant 20,000+ slides!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:24 AM Lazo-Wasem, Eric <eric.lazo-wasem at yale.edu<mailto:eric.lazo-wasem at yale.edu>> wrote:
Here we use two sizes that we are very please with, Manufactured by Delta Designs. We have 27 single door (lockable) cubes that each have 80 trays for a total 1200 slide capacity; these were a standard design suggested by Delta.  Most of these are sitting  on three tiers of pallet racking; should anyone want a picture let me know.

 We also had more or less customized "student" cabinets that have 25 trays for a total capacity of 500 slides.  These are ideal for temporary storage of slides being used or made by students, visitors, etc. and are easy to move to different workstations.

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Chris,

I would suggest contacting Delta to find out what they can do.

I suspect they can adjust their cutters to different sizes, but I am not certain.

Jean-Marc

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Are these cabinets useful for odd-sized slides?  I have a decent size collection of histological slides that are often wider than standard microscope slides. I cannot tell from the website photos whether large slides can be fit into these trays – do the tabs on the trays fold down or can they be removed?

Thanks!

J. Chris Sagebiel, collections manager

Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections

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Dirk,

I meant to check; thanks for the prompt.

The version we have has 604 trays, each holding 72 regular microscope slides, for a total of 43 488 slides.

I know that this tray version was an improvement from the previous, so they may have found a way to increase the number of slides stored per tray and per cabinets.

Cheers,

Jean-Marc

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Hi Jean-Marc,

... if I am not wrong, it can hold up to 56K slides (depending on the size of the slides) ...

With best wishes

Dirk

Am 15.02.2024 um 16:19 schrieb Jean-Marc Gagnon:

Vanessa,

After seeing the large, two-door Delta Slide Cabinet in use at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in 2017, we obtained one in 2018-19 and we are very satisfied with it. It can house in the vicinity of 40K regular slides and allows for great access.

We used a lot of Eberbach single and quad cabinets (not all slides have been transferred into the Delta cabinet yet). Other than wanting to move away for the mess of having so many smaller wooden cabinets all over our collections, we were also concerned with the long-term effect of acidic vapour. A bryozoan collection originally housed in one of those now has many specimens “suffering” from Bynesian Decay.

Delta’s small slide cabinet version, as show on the webpage Dirk indicated below, looks very interesting for smaller slide collections.

Jean-Marc

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Am 15.02.2024 um 10:40 schrieb Vanessa Pitusi:

Hi all,

Here at the Tromsø Museum, we are looking at new storage possibilities for our microscope slides. I have been checking online for solutions, but we have not found one that we have liked. Can anyone (especially in Scandinavia or Europe) share what kind of storage/cupboard(s) they use and where they were bought from.

Thank you!

Kind regards,

Vanessa

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