Agilent Technologies 8860 Maintaining page 148

9 Maintaining the FID
To Replace an FID Jet
Handle the clean or new jet only with tweezers, or wear gloves.
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6 Loosen the jet, then lift it out of the housing with tweezers.
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spring
7 Clean the detector base cavity using solvent, a swab, and compressed air or nitrogen.
8 Use tweezers to lower the new jet into the housing.
Do not overtighten the jet! Overtightening may permanently deform and damage the jet, the
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detector base, or both. The torque specification is 10 inch-pounds.
9 Carefully screw the jet into the housing. Tighten 1/6-turn past finger-tight (1/6-turn is one
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"flat" on a typical screwdriver handle, or the jet head).
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