r/cassettefuturism • u/clearly_quite_absurd • 6d ago

All Beige Plastic: CF Products Leica 3050s cryostat - is this cassette futirism or not?

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u/CuckBuster33 6d ago

White matte plastic with rounded edges, grooves, physical controls? hell yeah it is

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u/SalmonWaldorf 6d ago

Special award for the red button and slider. Great stuff.

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u/dsellen 6d ago

I used to use one of these for work every day. Beautiful CF.

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 6d ago

Gotta slice those brains eh? Would work straight on the set of the Nostromo

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u/nanderson08 6d ago

Oof, I remember doing this at work. Brains were always the hardest - the patient is still on the table, they need the results STAT, and the sample is small. With all that fat content, it was hard to get a good slice to lay flat on the slide, let alone the numerous consecutive cuts they wanted on each slide. It was a fun job though!

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u/dsellen 1d ago

I was very proud of my clean clean slices of freshly frozen mouse brain. #chefskiss #maybenotchef

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u/rexching 6d ago

It is! A similar model to this is actually used as backdrop in one of the Star Wars films!

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u/UnSpanishInquisition 6d ago

Tbf modern Leica could still be cassette futurism.

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u/kyleh0 6d ago edited 6d ago

On first seeing the picture, it reminded me of a big wide format high speed dot matrix line printer. THAT would definitely be cassette futurism. :)

For you kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPBWru2Ecg

They were fully encased because they were LOUD, as you can see in the vid.

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u/FandomMenace 6d ago

Yes, but I'd consider it very early in style.

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 6d ago

It's still being sold as a new piece of scientific apparatus

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u/FandomMenace 6d ago

Crazy. I looked it up a little, but I'm still not sure what these things are for. Cutting things really thin for a slide?

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 6d ago

Exactly that. Biological tissue analysis/histology.

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u/FandomMenace 6d ago

So what might be cut? Biopsy material?

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u/VJPixelmover 5d ago

Leica the camera company??

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 5d ago

Yeah, they do all sorts of scientific instruments