Maintaining Your GC 3
Contents
1 About Maintaining the GC
Overview of Maintenance 10
Tools and Materials Required for Maintenance 11
Preparing for Maintenance 13
Viewing Status Data 14
Finding a Replacement Part Number 16
2 Removing Covers
To Remove the Detector Top Cover 18
To Remove the Pneumatics Cover 19
To Remove the Electronics Cover 20
3 Maintaining the GC
Consumables and Parts for General GC Maintenance 24
Parts Identification 26
To Change the Hydrogen Sensor Calibration Gas Cylinder 27
4 Maintaining Capillary Columns
Consumables and Parts for Columns 30
To Install a Capillary Column Hanger 32
To Install Capillary Column Clips 33
To Condition a Capillary Column 34
To Cut a Loop from a Column 36
To Reverse a Column and Bakeout Contaminants 37
To Attach a Capillary Column Using UltiMetal Plus Flexible Metal Fittings 39
To Remove the Ferrule From a CFT Fitting 47
5 Maintaining the Split/Splitless Inlet
Consumables and Parts for the Split/Splitless Inlet 50
Exploded Parts View of the Split/Splitless Inlet 53
To Install a Capillary Column with the Split/Splitless Inlet 54
To Change the Septum on the Split/Splitless Inlet 58
To Clean the Septum Seat in the Insert Assembly of the Split/Splitless Inlet 60