7Disinfection, cleaning and maintenance
7.3Disinfection with conventional disinfectants
•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.
•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.
7.4Cleaning
•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!
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