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exemmet Commentator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England Posts: 72 Good Answers: 2	Vavcuum Pump Maintenance/Repair 07/09/2008 10:15 AM
	We have a client who has requested that we arrange or carry out preplanned maintenance on a medical vacuum pump. We have contacted the manufacturer who is to say the least unhelpful. Does any one in our wide community have maintenance requirements and relevant manuals etc for---- Meditech Vacuum Pump Type V20022 CCC Thanks for reading __________________ Life is terminal, No One Gets Out Alive, It is therefore better to travel than arrive
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#1 Re: Vavcuum Pump Maintenance/Repair 07/09/2008 10:18 AM
	<...the manufacturer who is to say the least unhelpful...> Understandable. Perhaps the manufacturer wanted the maintenance contract! __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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exemmet Commentator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England Posts: 72 Good Answers: 2	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Vavcuum Pump Maintenance/Repair 07/09/2008 10:23 AM
	We did offer it to them with us liaising with the client, protectionism at its worst methinks __________________ Life is terminal, No One Gets Out Alive, It is therefore better to travel than arrive
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BiomedWV Power-User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 183 Good Answers: 4	#3 Re: Vavcuum Pump Maintenance/Repair 07/09/2008 2:00 PM
	Is this just a small suction pump with a handle and a suction canister of some sort mounted on a base?
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North of 60 Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Iqaluit, NU. Canada Posts: 1854 Good Answers: 140	#4 Re: Vavcuum Pump Maintenance/Repair 07/10/2008 7:57 AM
	Watch you don't get caught on this one! As far as I know, at least in Canada, in order to perform any work on any"medical" rated equipment, you must be certified to do so. Usually such certification is garnered through the manufacturer by way of OEM training courses or some such process. At a minimum some sore of trade certification as a "medical equipment technician" should be needed. Assuming the device has certification from a Certification Body recognized as such, your working on it could void its certification and leave you with a possible liability issue. FWIW... check this issue out before proceeding. __________________ Joe Contractor to Electrical Inspector, "What do you mean you are going to make me follow the code?".
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