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5 Maintenance Procedures
This chapter provides the maintenance guidelines and procedures
necessary to maintain the instrument’s performance.
Keep to a maintenance schedule, and perform maintenance as required
and described in this chapter.
Contents
Topic Page
Maintenance schedule 5-3
Spare parts 5-4
Troubleshooting using Connections Insight 5-5
Safety and handling 5-6
Preparing the instrument for work performed on its source 5-7
Removal and refitting of the source enclosure 5-8
Installing and removing the corona pin 5-12
Operating the source isolation valve 5-15
Removing O-rings and seals 5-17
Cleaning the mass spectrometer case 5-18
Emptying the nitrogen exhaust trap bottle 5-19
Cleaning the source components 5-21
Cleaning the sampling cone assembly 5-21
Cleaning the extraction cone 5-31
Cleaning the ion block assembly 5-38
Cleaning the source T-Wave ion guide assembly 5-49
Replacing the ESI probe tip and gasket 5-55
Replacing the ESI probe sample capillary 5-59
Cleaning the APCI probe tip 5-67
Replacing the APCI probe sample capillary 5-68
Replacing the LockSpray probe capillary 5-74
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