Does anyone have a cheap & cheerful storage solution for storing microscope coverslips?
They always come in those little square boxes, & the lids are either too tight.....kid can't get them open, or too loose....kid picks up box & the inside section full of coverslips falls out, & if you're lucky it lands upright instead of spilling them everywhere
They also have a habit of picking the boxes up upside down....also means coverslips go everywhere. I put a small red sticker on the lids with "this way up" it which seems to have helped, but I'd love to know if anyone out there has come up with a clever alternative storage solution. The boxes they come in are pretty much the bane of my life when we do microscope work
Well I use the little boxes, but I count out and put in ten in each. I use the lids too as a container. I suppose I would have 12 little boxes and lids just sitting in a drawer with the micro. slides and they all have ten covers in each. (with no cover on the box of covers). I suppose that way you can see which way up they should because there is no lid. I also keep my slides in boxes of ten - in the boxes they come in and the lids too. So it is easy if they want 10 or 20 or 30 for a class. Hope this helps.
We use the smalll glass jars, from jams, they are very small. I put a lot of coverslips in the jars, I can see if it needs filling again. And so far the students have not made a spill.
Regards Labbie
Lab Manager/Lab Tech, mind reading etc etc
Now retired
Like Dime, I keep mine in the little plastic boxes, aabout half-filled.
I have class sets of glass slides in their boxes (ie. approx 20 per each half of the original slide box) and a cover slip box fits in there neatly too, so it's all sitting in the drawer ready to hand out.
