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Installing Flash IRMS Elemental Analyzer
Installing the Reactors into the Furnaces
Figure 52. Removing MAS Plus Autosampler
5. Install the reactors following the instruction reported in the
Feed Connector (BFC)
sequences.
CAUTION The reactors must be installed with the furnace at room temperature.
 To insert the reactor with a bottom Feed Connector (BFC)
Material required
Reactor retaining nut
Washer
Conical O-ring
Coupling union fixing tool
32-mm wrench
1. Loosely screw the nut with washer and o-ring on the BFC. Insert the ceramic tube from top. Fix it
in this position using the upper o-ring. See
Figure 53. Introduction of the Reactor with a Bottom Feed Connector (1)
2. Insert the bottle brush in the glassy carbon tube and introduce it in the ceramic tube from top.
Use your other hand to carefully slip it over the o-rings of the BFC while keeping the ceramic tube
up. Hold it tight while removing the bottle brush. See
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Nut
and To Install the combustion reactor into the right furnace
Figure
Conical O-ring
Reactor
To insert the reactor with a bottom
53.
Figure and Figure 55.
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