To Install A Capillary Column With The Purged Packed Inlet - Agilent Technologies 8860 Maintaining

6 Maintaining the Purged Packed Inlet

To Install a Capillary Column with the Purged Packed Inlet

To Install a Capillary Column with the Purged
Packed Inlet
1 Gather the following:
2 Launch the GC maintenance wizard: Maintenance > Column > Perform Maintenance >
Be careful! The oven and/or inlet may be hot enough to cause burns. If the inlet is hot, wear
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heat-resistant gloves to protect your hands.
Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from flying particles while handling, cutting, or
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installing glass or fused silica capillary columns. Use care in handling these columns to
prevent puncture wounds.
3 Install a 0.53-mm column adapter. See
Wear clean, lint-free gloves to prevent contamination of parts with dirt and skin oils.
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4 Install a new Viton O-ring. See
5 Place a septum, capillary column nut, and ferrule on the column.
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• Column
• Ferrule, see "Consumables and Parts for the Purged Packed Inlet"
• Column nut
• Glass liner
• Viton O-ring
• 0.53-mm column adapter
• Septum
• Two 1/4-inch wrenches
• Metric ruler
• Lint-free gloves
Install Column > Start Maintenance. Wait for the GC to become ready.
The wizard will guide you through the maintenance steps described below.
Inlet" on page 78.
page 79.
"To Install an Adapter on the Purged Packed
"To Change the O-Ring on the Purged Packed Inlet"
on page 66.
on
Maintaining Your GC