Instruction manual

Thermo Scientific Rotary Microtome Microm HM 340 E

Microm International GmbH

part of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Otto-Hahn-Str. 1A

69190 Walldorf / Germany

387831 - English

Moving the knife carrier on the console:

• Loosen the clamping lever (fig. 44.5) on the left

side of the knife carrier to move the carrier

forwards and backwards on the dovetail guide.

• This allows a rough adjustment of knife and

specimen.

Protection against injury:

• The knife carrier is equipped with two knife

guards (fig. 44.7) which can be moved

sideways.

• These knife guards should be pushed together

in the middle while adjusting knife or specimen.

• This reduces the danger of injury considerably.

Central clamping plate:

• The knife is clamped and stabilized in the

cutting zone by the central clamping plate (fig.

44.8) - exactly where the highest cutting forces

are applied.

Two types of clamping plates are available for the

knives:

clamping plate c for c-knives,

clamping plate d for d-knives.

Fig. 45 shows schematically the angles on the

cutting edge profiles of c- and d-knives.

Fig. 45