Maintenance and Troubleshooting
60 Agilent 5100 and 5110 ICP-OES User’s Guide
Two-piece demountable torches: The quartz outer tube set can
be fully immersed in acid. See Figures 13B, 13C and 14. The
injector can be inverted and dipped in the acid to just before the
plastic base.
CAUTION
Avoid acid contact with the seal where the quartz meets the plastic base.
Damage to the seals and torch body may occur.
NOTE
A torch cleaning stand is available from Agilent which helps keep torches
upright and steady during cleaning. See the Agilent website www.agilent.com
for details.
3 Keep the one-piece torch inverted through all the cleaning and
rinsing steps unless otherwise directed.
Figure 13. A. One piece torch in acid and B. demountable torch body with
injector in the acid, C. Torch outer tube in acid. A and B placed in an open
vessel with acid level just below the plastic base.
A
B C
A B
C