Vendors list

It is intended to gather suppliers of slides, stains and other items and put them in this file. At the moment the few entries can be considered a seed list. I have used some but not all.

A few, where I am sure of the location, are separated below by country. Information about those outside the US was given by others and have never been used by me.

Modified: 14 November, 2008

Microscopy-Online.com is not a vendor, but a site that gathers on-line vendors of microscopy related items. The main listing are arranged at one letter per page, and (as is to be expected) the page for M is huge:

• Cargille. The makers of Cargille immersion oil.
• Grau-Hall Scientific. A vendor of various supplies including stains. To find the stains, click on "microscope" in the menu to get a more detailed menu.
• Surplus Shed. A mixed bag of items most of which are optical and many of which apply to microscopes. Many items at low prices. A good place to check against for price.
• This line is left here in honor of the retired Klaus Kemp, preparer of diatom slides.
• RoseOptics has some used scopes for sale, but is mainly a service, repair and customization outfit. They also sell a few specialized items such as an alignment tool and an optical path demonstration block.
• TAI lubricants supplies the Nye damping lubricants for that smooth feel on all your knobs and other adjustments. Expensive.
• Micro-Tools carries mostly camera and watch repair tools. They also carry Nye damping greases.
• The Microscope Depot has supplies and accessories such as Canada balsam.
• Spectrum Chemical: large chemical supplier, large selection. e.g., canada balsam (search under candadian balsam), immersion oil, etc.
• Biosupplynet maintains a searchable database of suppliers. I have no idea how deep or complete their database is. Some of the companies they list have generic URLs that lead to "under construction" pages of ISPs and others lead to valid companies that do seem to do business on the net.
• Microscopy Laboratories: a Red Bank, NJ outfit will sell small quantities of stains. Their web page is not up yet, but they can be reached by email at micro@superlink.net.
• Leeds deals in full scopes, but has a line of custom products that includes objective shims and the like.
• Bioindustrial suppliers has a suite of catalogs that can be downloaded.
• Globe Scientific Large outfit with big online presence.
• Emsdiasum Another large online outfit. Serves light and electron microscope users. Warning: Navigation is difficult as they have several completely independent subunits. Round coverslips (for example) are under
  Electron Microscopy Sciences > Products > C > Coverglass > Round
• McCrone Microscopes Large online outfit. Check the "Lab Supplies" link.
• Ted Pella or Pelco International. Various supplies.
• Microscopy USA, online store divisionVarious supplies, including shims, immersion oil, etc. Claims used scopes, but none listed.
• Cynmar CorporationLarge supplier of scientific items, including scope accessories. Search "parfocal" for plastic RMS shims.
• Clarkson Laboratory & SupplyLarge supplier representing and carrying catalogs for many companies including Accu-Scope and many others. Too many items to list. Shims can be found here.

• Brunel Microscopes is a UK supplier of scopes as well as supplies and accessories including some cute microtomes for between 33 and 120 pounds sterling. Also supplies stains. Recommended by several.
• The Association of British Fungus Groups has stains for sale.

• Bevepe - ethyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone and some other solvents used a lot in slide prep.
• Fiers - chemicals in general, including stains, dyes, paraffins, canada balsam and all that (several brands, including Carl Roth).
• Slide preparation kits . Belgium based group member makes several stain kits available.

• Labstuff slides, coverslips, stains, dyes, equipment.