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Instruction Manual V1.2 - 11/2006
7 Disinfection, cleaning and maintenance
7.3 Disinfection with conventional
• Switch the instrument off.
• Carefully remove knife / blade as well as spec-
imens and accessories from the chamber.
• Remove section waste from the chamber
and dispose of it.
• Remove sliding window (see chapter 7.6 ‘Ex-
changing the fluorescent light lamp’).
• Remove microtome (see chapter 7.5.1
‘Removing the microtome’).
• Allow the microtome to thaw, disinfect and
allow to dry thoroughly.
Drying the microtome:
• Use a hairdryer: dry and before
reinstalling into the chamber
allow the microtome to cool
down to room temperature.
• Allow to dry at room temperature
(at least over night - longer,
if necessary).
• Disinfect and dry disassembled parts
(accessories and tools).
• Disinfect chamber walls with commercial
alcohol disinfectant.
• Place an adequate container underneath the
drain tube at the right side of the instrument.
• Pull stopper out of chamber bottom and
drain off disinfecting solution into the con-
tainer.
• Put stopper back into drain in cryochamber.
disinfectants
• Allow cryochamber to dry thoroughly.
• Reinstall microtome (see chapter 7.5.3).
• Only when they are completely dry, reinsert
the disinfected accessories / tools into the
cryochamber.
• Reinsert the sliding window.
• Switch the instrument back on.
• Once a suitable chamber temperature has
been reached, return the specimens to the
cryochamber.
7.4 Cleaning
• When necessary, the instrument surfaces
can be cleaned with mild commercial house-
hold cleaners.
•
Surfaces which are potentially contaminated
(infectious germs) should always be cleaned
with alcohol disinfectants!