Agilent Technologies Agilent 7890 Series

34 Maintaining Your GC
4 Maintaining Capillary Columns
To Condition a Capillary Column
1 Gather the following:
• One 7/16- inch, and 1/4- inch wrenches
• No- hole ferrule (See “Consumables and Parts for
Columns” on page 30.)
• Column nut
2 Load the GC maintenance method and wait for the GC to
become ready.
3 Install the column into the inlet using the new ferrules.
See:
• To Install a Capillary Column with the Split/Splitless
Inlet
• “To Install a Capillary Column with the Multimode
Inlet”
• To Install a Capillary Column with the Purged Packed
Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the COC Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the PTV Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the VI
WARNING
Do not use hydrogen as the carrier for conditioning! It could vent
into the oven and present an explosion hazard.
WARNING
Be careful! The oven and/or detector may be hot enough to cause
burns. If the detector is hot, wear gloves to protect your hands.
WARNING
Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from flying particles
while handling, cutting, or installing glass or fused silica capillary
columns. Use care in handling these columns to prevent puncture
wounds.