Misuk,
I agree with Dave, in that a scalpel is the only viable collection
tool. For almost 20
years now the most common question regarding micromilling has been
"why don't
you use a mini-vacuum to collect the powder". If there was a better
way to do
this work, we would have adopted it...immediately.
Cheers,
Bill

Dr. William P. Patterson
Professor and Director of the Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon SK S7N 5E2
Canada
Phone: 306-966-5691 (office), 306-261-7177 (cell)
Web: http://geochemistry.usask.ca/bill.html





On 2-Dec-09, at 11:07 AM, Misuk Yun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a new micromill (New Wave) facility in our department. I was
> wondering how people collect the small milled sample powder in
> containers/vials. The system does not have any accessaries for the
> sample
> collection.
>
> I would very appreciate if anyone can send a photo of their system.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Misuk
>
>
>
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> University of Manitoba
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