Eppendorf 5402 Manual

It also reminds you of an era when centrifuges had . You set the time with a knob. You noted the run in a paper logbook. And if the lid latch failed, you fixed it with a flathead screwdriver, guided by the manual’s exploded parts diagram.

Eppendorf 5402 is a legacy refrigerated microcentrifuge designed for temperature-sensitive sample processing in biological and chemical laboratories. While a direct full-text PDF of the 5402 manual is not hosted on the primary Eppendorf Download Center due to its age, technical specifications and operational guidance are available through specialist laboratory equipment archives and secondary service documentation. eppendorf 5402 manual

The 5402 could swing between a fixed-angle rotor (F-45-18-11) and a swinging-bucket rotor (A-8-11). The manual contains the master tables showing which plastic or steel adapters fit which tubes—from 0.4 mL microtubes to 1.5/2.0 mL standard tubes. Put a 0.5 mL tube in the wrong adapter, and you risk a rotor imbalance or, worse, a broken tube. It also reminds you of an era when centrifuges had