Agilent Technologies 8860 Maintaining

5 Maintaining the Split/Splitless Inlet
To Replace the Gold Seal on the Split/Splitless Inlet
58 Maintaining Your GC
CAUTION
Wear clean, lint-free gloves to prevent contamination of parts with dirt and skin oils.
6 Put on gloves to protect the new gold seal and washer from contamination. Put a new
washer in the reducing nut and place the new gold seal on top of it (raised portion facing
down).
7 Replace the reducing nut and tighten securely with a wrench.
8 Replace the inlet liner.
9 Install the column and the insulation cup.
10 Bakeout contaminants. See “To Bakeout Contaminants from the Split/Splitless Inlet” on
page 63.
11 Perform an inlet Leak & Restriction test and reset the maintenance counters.
12 Select Finished, then select OK to exit the GC installation wizard.
13 Restore the analytical method.
Inlet gold seal
Washer
Reducing nut
Gold seal side view
Make sure raised portion faces
down.

Agilent Technologies 8860 Specifications

General

Brand	Agilent Technologies
Model	8860
Category	Laboratory Equipment
Language	English