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Thermo Scientific Cryofuge 8 / 16 Centrifuges and Heavy Duty Centrifuges
Operation
NOTICE
Don’t use any sharp tool to extract the plug. This might damage the centrifugation chamber.
3. You have to regularly check, if the drain box is filled and empty the drain box to avoid spilling on the floor.
4. Clean, disinfect and decontaminate the drain box as stated in the Maintenance and Care chapter.
9. Remove a Rotor
WARNING
Risk of cuts through fast rotating windshield lid.
Do not open the centrifuge door while the rotor assembly spins.
Only when the rotor assembly has stopped, use the mechanical emergency centrifuge door release.
NOTICE
For your protection when using an aerosol-tight rotor the bucket should only be removed with the lid closed.
NOTICE
Two people are necessary to remove the rotor because of its weight.
1. Open the centrifuge door. The centrifuge door lifts the windshield lid automatically.
The centrifuge door can only be opened when the centrifuge is switched on.
Press the
Open Door
button on the touchscreen. The centrifuge door will be automatically opened.
CAUTION
Do not use the mechanical emergency door release as regular procedure to open the centrifuge . Use
the mechanical emergency door release, only if a malfunction or power failure occurs and only when
you have made sure that the rotor stopped spinning.
2. Remove the windshield lid from the holder inside the centrifuge door.
3. Unload the buckets.
4. Remove the buckets.
5. Use the rotor locking tool (20360104) to disengage the rotor locking screw.
Figure III–17:
Remove the rotor from the drive shaft.
6. Remove the rotor from the drive shaft.
CAUTION
The centrifuge drive can be damaged if the rotor body falls on it.
Hold the windshield knob with one hand and at the rim of the windshield bowl with the other.
Lift the windshield bowl straight from the drive shaft.
For some windshield bowls it may be easier to handle them with 2 persons.
