Dear CCP4, I'm looking for advice on mounting thin needles for low temperature data collection. Our needles are fairly long (100-200 microns) but only 20 microns or less thick. When I pick them up with Hampton loops (0.05-0.1 mm size), the crystals tend to break as they are moved out of the drop and through the liquid-air interface.
I see that Mitegen sells MicroLoops E, which are advertised as working well for mounting needles. Can anyone recommend them? Can anyone recommend Mitegen MicroMeshes or another tool for mounting needles? Thanks, Jack Tanner -- John J. Tanner Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Missouri-Columbia 125 Chemistry Building Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-884-1280 Fax: 573-882-2754 Email: tanne...@missouri.edu http://www.chem.missouri.edu/TannerGroup/tanner.html
