Installing The New Capillary - Waters Xevo TQ-S Operator's, Overview And Maintenance Manual

4 Maintenance Procedures

Installing the new capillary

Required materials
• Chemical-resistant, powder-free gloves
• Combined 2.5-mm Allen wrench and cone extraction tool
• 10-mm wrench
• Needle-nose pliers
• LC pump
• HPLC-grade (or better) 1:1 acetonitrile/water
• Capillary
• Ferrule
• Seal
• PTFE liner tubing
• Conductive sleeve
• Red PEEK tubing
• Sharp knife or PEEK tubing cutter
• Metal gasket for the probe tip
• Safety goggles
To install the new capillary
1. Use the sharp knife or PEEK tubing cutter to cut an approximately
60 cm (24 inches) piece of red, PEEK tubing.
Requirement:
horizontal axis).
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To avoid personal contamination with biohazards
Warning:
or compounds that are toxic or corrosive, and to avoid
spreading contamination to uncontaminated surfaces, wear
clean, chemical-resistant, powder-free gloves when working
with the probe and source components.
To avoid puncture wounds, handle the probe with
Warning:
care; the ESI probe tip is sharp.
:
Cut the tubing squarely (that is, perpendicular to its