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Maintenance
Maintaining the API Source Interface
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4. After the API source cools to room temperature, remove it.
5. Remove the ion sweep cone by grasping its outer ridges and pulling it off of the API cone
seal (Figure 38).
Figure 38. Ion sweep cone removed from the MS mount assembly (Orbitrap Fusion MS)
CAUTION
• Make sure that you do not accidentally lift the release lever located at the top of
the API source interface, which will vent the mass spectrometer.
• To avoid contaminating the ion transfer tube, do not touch its exposed entrance.
Release lever for the
API source interface
API cone seal
Ion sweep cone