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Maintenance
Maintaining the API Source Interface
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To remove the RF lens, exit lens, MP00 RF lens, and lens L0
1. Remove the API source interface (see page 71).
2. Wearing clean, lint- and powder-free gloves, loosen and extend the two captive
thumbscrews that secure the RF lens, exit lens, multipole MP00, and lens L0 to the cage.
3. Pull the multipole MP00 and lens L0 assembly off of the API source interface cage. See
Figure 36. Place them on a clean, lint-free surface.
Figure 36. Removing the multipole MP00 and lens L0 assembly
4. Grasp the two retainer thumbscrews and carefully pull the RF lens (Figure 37) with the
exit lens straight out of the API source interface cage.
5. Remove the exit lens off of the RF lens. Place both on a clean surface.
Multipole MP00 and
lens L0 assembly
Lens L0
API source interface cage
Retainer thumbscrews
loosened and extended