Cleaning Intervals; Cleaning - VWR MICRO STAR 17 Instruction Manual

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Maintenance and care

Cleaning intervals

Cleaning intervals
For the sake of personal, environmental, and material protection, it is your duty to clean and if
necessary disinfect the centrifuge on a regular basis.
Maintenance
Clean rotor chamber
Clean rotor
Accessories
Cabinet
Filter unit
Ventilation holes

Cleaning

When cleaning centrifuge and accessories mind the following:
• Use warm water with a neutral solvent.
• Never use caustic cleaning agents such as soap suds, phosphoric acid, bleaching solutions or
scrubbing powder.
• Rinse the cavities out thoroughly.
• Use a soft brush without metal bristles to remove stubborn residue.
• Afterwards rinse with distilled water.
• Place the rotors on a plastic grate with their cavities pointing down.
• If drying boxes are used, the temperature must never exceed 50 °C, since higher temperatures could
damage the material and shorten the lifetime of the parts.
• Use only disinfectants with a pH of 6-8.
Clean centrifuge and accessories as follows:
1. Open the centrifuge.
2. Turn off the centrifuge.
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CAUTION Refrain from using any other cleaning or decontamination procedure than
those recommended here, if you are not entirely sure that the intended procedure is safe
for the equipment.
Use only approved cleansers.
If in doubt, contact VWR.
CAUTION Before using any cleaning or decontamination methods except those
recommended by the manufacturer, users should check with the manufacturer that the
proposed method will not damage the equipment.
Recommended interval
daily or when polluted
daily or when polluted
daily or when polluted
Once per month
Every three months
Every six months