Micro-Tools hardened steel, needle tip

These are the original Micro-Tools, formerly from Minitool, made from first grade hardened tool steel manufactured to precise and durable tips. Tips are precision ground, lapped and polished with the close tolerances needed for microscopy scale applications. The Micro-Tool tips are mounted in anodised tool cones.

Available: 

• Needle tip, long and short size 
• Shank sizes 0.12mm, 0.25mm, 0.5mm and 1mm 

Also available separately:

• Micro-Tools Handle, to fit all Micro-Tools, threads are 8-32.
• Micro-Tool sets available with handle and eight replaceable screw-on tips in a hardwood storage case.

Caution: Micro-tools are very fine, hard and brittle. Take special care when removing from the tube. Press the blue square holding the tool onto a flat surface with the tube up at a shallow angle. Hold the tube near the other end and gently twist back and forth while pulling very lightly. The tube will suddenly clear the blue plastic, and the tool could easily touch the tube. Some tools are on a barely visible shaft extending slightly from the larger shaft. Practice removal first using the opposing blue stopper which does not hold a tool. See image below for clarification.

Note: Tools are packed by the manufacturer in perfect conditions. These tools like diamond knives and sapphire micro-scalpels are assumed to have been shipped in perfect conditions and any problems almost certainly are due to mishandling.