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Quick Reference Guide
Tissue-Tek® Xpress® x120
QRG | x120 | 2010 | V-10
page 7 | 10
Maintenance
After every run
1.
Basket, magazines, lids and handles must
be cleaned once unloaded from the
instrument. Paraffin residues clog the
tubing.
a.
With the use of an industrial dish
washer (temperatures ≤100°C).
b.
Cleaning cycle of an overnight
processor as VIP-series.
c.
In the oven >65°C ≤100°C for 15
min. afterwards, rinse in xylene or
xylene substitute and ethanol.
Drip tray
Pipette
Daily
1.
Exterior cleaning.
2.
Retort cleaning.
3.
Exchange drip tray liner.
4.
Refill Loading station with Pre-Processing
Solution when indicated or Molecular Fixative.
5.
Clean magazines or baskets as described
Locking lever replace reagents
Replace processing reagent
Weekly
40 Working hours or after 1500 cassettes
(whichever comes first )
1.
Reagent set change, reagent and paraffin need
to be replaced as a set.
2.
Invert reagent bottles 5 times before use, as
stated on the label.
3.
Retort mesh filter cleaning (retort 1 + 2).
4.
Paraffin oven mesh filter cleaning.
5.
Microwave Station Retort Sight Tube Cleaning
Empty paraffin oven
Replace paraffin
Cleaning sight tube with brush
Emptying sight tube with
pipette
