To Condition A Capillary Column - Agilent Technologies Agilent 7890 Series Maintenance Manual

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Maintaining Capillary Columns

To Condition a Capillary Column

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1 Gather the following:
• One 7/16- inch, and 1/4- inch wrenches
• No- hole ferrule (See
Columns" on page 30.)
• Column nut
Do not use hydrogen as the carrier for conditioning! It could vent
into the oven and present an explosion hazard.
2 Load the GC maintenance method
become ready.
Be careful! The oven and/or detector may be hot enough to cause
burns. If the detector is hot, wear gloves to protect your hands.
Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from flying particles
while handling, cutting, or installing glass or fused silica capillary
columns. Use care in handling these columns to prevent puncture
wounds.
3 Install the column into the inlet using the new ferrules.
See:
• To Install a Capillary Column with the Split/Splitless
Inlet
• "To Install a Capillary Column with the Multimode
Inlet"
• To Install a Capillary Column with the Purged Packed
Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the COC Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the PTV Inlet
• To Install a Capillary Column with the VI
"Consumables and Parts for
and wait for the GC to
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