Dear Bill

We just dip the end of the nafion tubing into a little methanol for a
few seconds. The tubing then slips easily onto the capillary and then
dries and shrinks in seconds. An easy task with no need for the air to
turn blue!

Regards

Ian

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NERC Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility
Organic and Biological Section
School of Chemistry
University of Bristol
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, william anderson wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I was curious if anyone has replaced their Nafion tubing on the dryer
> system in the interface with a Finnigan GC-IRMS?  And if so, how do
> you ever get the tubbing to slip over the capillary tubing, or do you
> have to purchase this pre-made (I did check Permapure, but there was
> nothing on their web site).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Anderson
>
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> Earth Sciences Department and Southeast Environmental Research Center
> Florida International University
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