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General Maintenance
If insulators are dirty, clean them with a cotton swab dampened with
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reagent-grade methanol. If that does not clean the insulators, replace them. Do
not abrasively or ultrasonically clean the insulators.
Lens
Figure 38.
The filaments, source heater assembly, and insulators cannot be cleaned
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ultrasonically. Replace these components if major contamination occurs.
3 If the contamination is serious, such as an oil backflow into the analyzer,
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Do not use the abrasive slurry on the source mount bushings.
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Source body
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EI HES parts to be cleaned
seriously consider replacing the contaminated parts
Source mount
Repeller
with bushings
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Filament block
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