OregonFossil Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 So how do you "capture the UM size fossils and place them on another slide"? I am thinking of micro fossils less than 1mm. I would like isolate and move to another slide specific specimens. Dental tools are way too big. Do you make your own out of extremly fine wire or what? Sources? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 a natural bristle small paintbrush in the size range of 00 or 000 or so can moistened in your mouth and fossils can be picked up with it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Laboratory spatula, or eye droppers. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM - APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonFossil Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 Thanks. I just spent a couple of hours filing dental tools on my ceramic knife sharpener to make them very fine - it works. ordering both suggested items to complete " micro tools":). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty_Crab Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 If your question is to how to get sub millimeter pointed tools, I used to work in a research lab that did micro surgery on tiny embryos. We would use sub-millimeter tungsten wire, then sharpen them electrolytically. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/267153/PMC2555190.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y It's never even occurred to me to use these for fossil prep. I'm very curious as to what you're preparing and how it turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 I thought the OP just wanted to pick these up.... clarification, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonFossil Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 I have a series of strainers, and after that I place about .5 of a 1/64 teaspoon measure on the slide. sorting what I have with a tool, and then needed something like the eye dropper or very small paint brush to put one or more specimens on a slide. The documentation for micro fossils in the Keasey and Pittsburg Bluff formations (where I collect, both water environments) is almost non-existent so I want to start a library of what I find. Thanks everyone who answered. Have my first 5-gallon trash can full of discarded matrix from invertebrate collecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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