Metrohm 850 Professional IC Cation - LP-Gradient - Manual (Page 72)

5.5 High pressure pump
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850 Professional IC Cation – LP Gradient
Pump head maintenance
An unstable baseline (pulsation, flow fluctuations) is in many cases the
result of contaminated valves (35-2), (35-3) or defective, leaking piston
seals on the high pressure pump. Proceed as follows for cleaning contami-
nated valves and/or replacing worn parts such as pistons, piston seal and
valves:
This maintenance work should be carried out at least once a year.
Removing the pump head
1 Turn off high pressure pump and wait until pressure is released.
2 Loosen the pressure screw on the inlet valve holder (20-2) and
unscrew the connection tubing together with the coupling (20-9)
pump head input capillary (20-7) and eluent aspiration tubing from
the pump head.
3 Unscrew the pump head output capillary (20-13) from the pump
head.
4 Remove pump head from the pump housing by loosening the 4 fas-
tening screws (20-5) using the 6.2621.030 hexagon key. The main
piston is on the left (viewed from the front), and the auxiliary piston
is on the right.
Cleaning/replacing the zirconium oxide piston
Clean one piston after the other as follows:
1 Removing the piston cartridge from the pump head
Loosen the piston cartridge with a wrench and unscrew from the
pump head by hand.