Maintenance Procedures; Maintenance Schedule - Waters Xevo TQ-GC Overview And Maintenance Manual

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Maintenance procedures

This section 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
section.

4.1 Maintenance schedule

The following table lists the periodic maintenance schedules that ensure optimum instrument
performance.
Table 4–1: Maintenance schedule:
Procedure
Cleaning the inner source
components.
Replacing the inner source
filament.
Cleaning the outer source lens
stack.
Cleaning the instrument case.
Maintaining the rotary backing
pump's oil.
Frequency
When source components are
visibly fouled, the background
or high-mass peak
contaminants are
unacceptably high, or
sensitivity decreases to
unacceptable levels.
As required.
When source components are
visibly fouled, the background
or high-mass peak
contaminants are
unacceptably high, or
sensitivity decreases to
unacceptable levels.
As required.
Weekly.
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See Cleaning the inner source
components.
See Replacing the inner
source filament.
See Cleaning the outer source
lens stack.
See Cleaning the instrument
case.
See Maintaining the rotary
backing pump's oil.