NanoSoft clipping tools

NanoSoft’s Clipping Tool is compatible with the Thermo Fisher clipping station and is loaded with C-clips and clips grids using the same method. The main difference is that the C-clip is ejected by pressing the tool with a pair of tweezers. This has the advantage of a compact design so that when placed in LN₂ in the clipping station, the entire body is deep enough inside the station that they are untouched by any frost from environmental moisture. This includes when left in the station at cryogenic temperature for long periods of time. This allows you to fully pre-load the tools with C-clips and cool them all down at the same time and without the added hassle of ice contamination - no need to warm, re-load and re-cool clipping tools.

Loaded Clipping Tools with C-clips are placed into the Clipping Tool Rack, and then straight into a clipping station for cooling. Any type of tweezer can be used to grab the back end of the Clipping Tool (square profile of the plunger/back end enables simple and comfortable grasping with tweezer tips). Small protuberances provide extra support to keep the Clipping Tool from twisting when transferring from the rack to the grid. Autogrid Tweezers are recommended so the Clipping Tools remains securely in position during the transfer. Place the Clipping Tool into position for clipping and release the tool then press down on the top of the Clipping Tool to eject the C-clip and clip the grid (, i.e. not while grasping the sides of the plunger with the tweezers. The shorter body of the Clipping Tool enables you to keep the tool straighter while clipping than competitors clipping tools, giving a proper seat of the C-clip into the AutoGrid ring.

The C-clip Bottoming Tool provides an easier and more efficient way to "bottom" the C-clip at the tip of the barrel of a clipping tool prior to clipping. The cylinder of the Bottoming Tool ensures that the barrel of the clipping tool is straight, so upon pressing of the plunger to push the C-clip to the tip you are much less likely to "mis-bottom" the C-clip. Often when pressing the tip against a tabletop or other flat surface, you are not able to hold the barrel exactly straight against the surface and the c-clip can fly out of the tool and is lost.

Clipping Station is compatible with both NanoSoft and Thermo Fisher clipping tools.

Clipping tool set includes:
4 Clipping Tools
1 Clipping Tool Rack
1 C-clip Bottoming Tool

AutoGrid tweezers are available