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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 5-5
Troubleshooting with Connections INSIGHT 5-5
Safety and handling 5-6
Preparing the instrument for work performed on the source 5-7
Operating the source isolation valve 5-8
Removing O-rings and seals 5-10
Cleaning the instrument’s exterior 5-11
Emptying the exhaust trap bottle 5-11
Emptying the roughing pump exhaust liquid trap bottle 5-13
Gas ballasting the roughing pump 5-15
Checking the roughing pump oil level 5-18
Adding oil to the roughing pump 5-18
Cleaning the source components 5-20
Cleaning the sample cone and gas cone 5-20
Cleaning the ion block, isolation valve, and extraction cone 5-30
Cleaning the source hexapole assembly 5-47
Replacing the ESI probe tip 5-54
Replacing the ESI probe sample capillary 5-55
Cleaning the IonSABRE APCI probe tip 5-62
Replacing the IonSABRE APCI probe sample capillary 5-62
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