Maintenance Procedures - Waters Xevo TQ-S Operator's, Overview And Maintenance Manual

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Maintenance Procedures

This chapter provides the maintenance guidelines and procedures
necessary to maintain the mass spectrometer's performance.
Keep to a maintenance schedule, and perform maintenance as required
and described in this chapter.
Contents:
Topic Page
Maintenance schedule ..................................................................... 92
Spare parts ....................................................................................... 95
Troubleshooting with Connections INSIGHT ................................ 96
Safety and handling ......................................................................... 97
Preparing the instrument for working on the source .................... 98
Removing and refitting the source enclosure ................................. 100
Installing and removing the corona pin.......................................... 102
Operating the source isolation valve............................................... 107
Removing O-rings and seals ............................................................ 110
Cleaning the instrument case ......................................................... 111
Emptying the nitrogen exhaust trap bottle .................................... 111
Maintaining the Oerlikon Leybold oil-filled roughing pumps ....... 113
Gas ballasting the Edwards XDS35i oil-free roughing pump ....... 127
Cleaning the source components..................................................... 128
Cleaning the sampling cone assembly ............................................ 129
Cleaning the ion block assembly ..................................................... 139
Cleaning the StepWave ion guide assembly................................... 152
Replacing the ESI probe tip and gasket ......................................... 171
Replacing the ESI probe sample capillary...................................... 175
Cleaning the IonSABRE II probe tip .............................................. 183
Replacing the IonSABRE II probe sample capillary ...................... 184
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