On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:22:03 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote on 12/07/2007 12:43:55 PM: > could anyone drop the name of a source for those tweezer-like clamps whose > ends fit perfectly around a Nunc/CryoCap cryovial? one very famous source > seems not to have them. > > these are not the locking clamps or thick metal tongs, but are more like > tweezers with the ends curved into half-circles on each arm. > > -bryan Hi Bryan - They are "specimen mount tweezers" or "SEM mount forceps", originally
... as opposed to "vile manipulators," rumored to be named after famous protagonists in the field.