Quarterly Cleaning And Maintenance; Cleaning And Maintenance As Necessary - Leica HistoCore SPECTRA CV Instructions For Use Manual

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Cleaning and Maintenance

7.4.3 Quarterly cleaning and maintenance

A Changing the active carbon filter:
• Replace the active carbon filter (→ P. 117 – 7.2.15 Changing the active carbon filter).

7.4.4 Cleaning and maintenance as necessary

Warning
• Attention: Wear cut-resistant gloves
• Clean the interior of the instrument in the event of broken glass.
• A lint-free cloth moistened with xylene can be used to clean off any spilled mounting media.
You can use the brush included in the delivery package to brush glass debris without residue
of mounting media or loose glass debris toward the drawer outlet and then use a commercially
available vacuum cleaner to carefully clean them up.
A • Make sure the instrument is idle
instrument):
• Cover reagent vessels
• Ensure there is enough xylene in the needle cleaning container to prevent the needle from
drying out (→ P. 81 – 6.3.2 Monitoring and refilling of the needle cleaning container).
B • Prime the hose system with xylene
C Pick&Place module:
• Replace the suction cups if they have severe deformation or are very dirty
7.2.11 Exchange suction
D • Cleaning the interior of the instrument
E To ensure a smooth operation of the instrument software, the instrument must be restarted
at least every 3 days (→ P. 97 – 6.6.2 Coverslipping operation finished).
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(→ P. 18 – 3.1 Standard delivery – packing
(→ P. 76 – 6.2 Switching on and shutting down the
(→ P. 123 – 7.3.3 Cleaning the hose
cups).
(→ P. 107 – 7.2.4 Interior
list)!
system).
(→ P. 114 –
cleaning).
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