Nextteq Irritant Smoke Tube Kit for Respirator Fit Testing and Airflow Indication User Manual

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Nextteq Irritant Smoke Tube Kit Manual

The Gastec Irritant Smoke Tube (Part Number 9501) is manufactured by the Gastec Corporation.

Nextteq is Gastec’s exclusive U.S. master wholesale distributor.

Tel: 813-249-5888 Toll free: 877-312-2333 Fax: 813-249-0188 Toll free: 877-312-2444 www.nextteq.
P/N 9505 Rev F 8/09

Warnings

39. Do not substitute, modify, or omit parts or components. Use

exact manufactured replacement parts in configurations

specified by the original manufacturer. Substitution of

unauthorized parts may result in property damage, accidents,

serious injury, or death.

40. The Nextteq Aspiration Bulb Pump has an internal volume of

approximately 30 milliliters. The pump produces a volume of

approximately 25 milliliters with each complete and uniform

bulb compression plus or minus 5 milliliters per compression.

41. To produce a flow rate of approximately 200 milliliters per

minute with the Nextteq Aspiration Bulb Pump, uniformly and

completely compress the bulb smoothly and continuously

every 8 seconds for 1 minute.

42. To produce a small, weak dilute concentration of smoke using

the Nextteq Aspiration Bulb Pump, slowly and gently compress

the bulb at a controlled, uniform, steady rate until a small,

weak, diluted stream of smoke is produced that is the absolute

minimum necessary to elicit a response from the test subject

being tested.

Then immediately stop compressing the bulb and release

the partially compressed bulb. No additional smoke is to

be generated.

43. Do not insert a Gastec Irritant Smoke Tube into an operating

electronic pump.

44. Do not use a Gastec Irritant Smoke Tube with an electronic

pump for the Sensitivity Check. The electronic pump may not

be calibrated; the flow rate may be set too high; and the pump

may not automatically shut off rapidly. Any of these could lead

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