Loading The Rotor; Safety Hints - Labnet C0336 User Manual

4.3 Loading the rotor

• Laboratory centrifuge can be operated by laboratory personnel after getting acquainted with user
manual.
• User manual shall be always held near the centrifuge.
• The centrifuge cannot be misused.
• It is necessary to insert test tubes symmetrically on the opposite sides.
FILLING TUBES
• Fill test tubes outside the centrifuge.
• Please pay special attention to the quality and proper thickness of the glass test tubes walls. Those
shall be test tubes for centrifuges.
• Fill test tubes outside the centrifuge.

4.4 Safety hints

ROTORS MAINTENANCE
• Lubricate the swing-out rotor journal pins.
• Use only accessories in good condition.
• Protect equipment against corrosion using accurate preventive maintenance.
HS ACCESSORIES MAINTENANCE
• HS accessories maintenance.
• Make sure that rubber O-rings are lightly coated with silicone grease.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
• Accessories are not biotight. For centrifuging infectious materials, it is necessary to use hermetically
closed tubes meeting demands of biotightness, in order to prevent germs migration into the centrifuge
and beyond it.
• It is not allowed to subject to centrifugation toxic materials with damaged leak proof seals of the
rotor or test-tube. Proper disinfection procedures have to be carried out when dangerous substances
contaminated the centrifuge or its accessories.
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