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Zircofit

.. connects 1/16" PEEK sleeves onto your 360um OD fused silica tubing - up to UHPLC pressures

Crimping cycle

Didn`t we all dream of the capability to make NanoViper alike connections in our labs - just as needed? Well, maybe this dream became true....

The Zircofit concept uses a crimping tool taken from the electronics store and modified for the purpose of nanoLC sleeve crimping. The consumable part of Zircofit is a CNC lathe 1/16" PEEK sleeve with a crimp-able metal collar crafted to exactly the same 1/16" OD as a normal sleeve.

That way, one gets a PEEK sleeve with a metal section one can crimp onto the fused silica tubing. The crimping makes a rock solid connection of your sleeve onto the 360um OD fused silica - regardless of the applied LC pressure. The connection is so solid that it becomes impossible to slip / skip / slide  under LC pressure and/or LC injection pressure pulses.

Optimum system performance is often affected by sleeve related dead volumes or failure.  Consumable part can be re-ordered. An optional teflon tubing added prior crimping adds extra protection to your fused silica.

This is all you need to make reliable UHPLC compliant 1/16" sleeves onto your fused silica tubing.

Below, please find a set of pictures taken during use of the Zircofrit kit.

Once a Zircofit sleeve is put onto your fused silica tubing, one only needs to level the fused silica with the sleeve, crimp and its done. A correct crimp is so strong that one can not move the sleeve any more, forming a bond suitable for UHPLC pressures.

Adjust fused silica prior crimpingcrimping result on metal jacket

beginning to final result including nut and protection tubingconnection onto VICI 6 port valve

 


 

 

 

 * Starter Kit Contents:
1 pc.     ZircoFit Crimp Tool
10 pcs. 1/16" ZircoFit Sleeve, 10 mm
10 pcs. 1/16" ZircoFit Sleeve, 13 mm
20 pcs. Vici SS Nut 1/16" and SS 316 Ferrule 1/16"
1 pc.     10/363 Fused Silica, 2.5m
1 pc.     25/363 Fused Silica, 2.5m
1 pc.     50/363 Fused Silica, 2.5m
1 pc.     75/363 Fused Silica, 2.5m
1 pc.     Fused Silica Cutter (Cleaving Stone)
1 pc.     PTFE 1x0.5 Shield Tubing, 5m
1 pc.     Toolcase holding all parts of the kit

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