target spheres or microelectronic components a glass stalk is drawn and truncated near its tip the truncated end of the glass stalk is dipped into silicone rubber forming an extending streamer after the rubber cures for approximately 24 hours a small part is touched to the streamer and will be held securely throughout processing application_number US 25067288 A description the apparatus and method according to the present invention involves adhesively mounting very small objects to be processed to glass stalks referring first to fig1 there is shown drawn glass stalk 10 glass stalk 10 has been prepared by drawing a 2 3 inch long glass tube such as a capillary tube as is used in the medical profession to draw blood samples in a kopf 39 s needle pipet machine manufactured by david kopf instruments of tujunga california drawing continues until a desired diameter approximately 0 025 mm has been achieved at the middle of the tube after cooling the tube is separated at the mid point the ends being stalks 10 as shown in fig1 tip 10b is then removed by fracturing leaving a truncated conical glass stalk 10 as shown in fig2 for the mounting of relatively large objects those larger than about 130 micrograms stalk 10 can be used as it is illustrated in fig2 by dipping tip 11 into rtv silicone rubber and drawing out rubber streamer 12 as shown in fig3 the diameter of rubber streamer 12 must be at least 50 micrometers to insure that it is of sufficient rigidity to withstand subsequent processing it is believed that.