Agilent Technologies Agilent 7890 Series, Maintenance Manual

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352 Maintaining Your GC
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Swagelok Connections
Figure 12 Marking the fitting
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For 1/8- inch Swagelok fittings , use a pair of 7/16- inch
wrenches to tighten the fitting 3/4 of a turn ( Figure 13 ).
For 1/4- inch fittings, use a pair of 9/16- inch wrenches
to tighten them 1- 1/4 turn ( Figure 13 ).
Figure 13 Final tightening
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Remove the plug from the fitting. To connect the tubing,
with nut and ferrules, to another fitting, finger- tighten the
nut, then use a wrench to tighten it 3/4 (1/8- inch fittings)
or 1- 1/4 (1/4- inch fittings) of a turn.
10 Both correctly- and incorrectly- swaged connections are
shown in
Figure 14 . Note that the end of the tubing in a
correctly- swaged fitting is not crushed and does not
interfere with the action of the ferrules.
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