Baths

We manufacture custom baths for microscope stages. These are designed for stages with a metal or magnetic area as they are fitted with magnets to hold them in place. The lower surface is machined-flat stainless steel.

Below is an example of a bath designed to accommodate a cover slip as the lower optical surface, held in place by a perspex screw-down upper part into which is fitted holders for suction tubes or electrodes. The bath is held in place on the microscope stage by three magnets.

ISO-B3-1 The perfusion bath featured on the left is equipped with a pair of platinum electrodes with gold plated contacts. Materials: Clear and black perspex, stainless steel insert plate, nitrile o-ring. Specifications: Designed to take a 19mm diam. 0.15mm thick glass coverslip To fit a 50mm hole in the microscope stage. Diameter of main portion 58mm. Price: £400.00

Examples of prototype baths are shown below:

If you are interested in our custom bath manufacture then please get in touch, g23instruments@ucl.ac.uk attaching a diagram to your email.

This page last modified May 30, 2008 by Dr Bob Muid