Peak is growing at 42.10 and creating autotune problems

I have been trying to establish where the source of contamination is coming from to create a peak at 42.10 and having it continually grow. We are using an 8890 with a 7000D MS and have a multimode inlet that was recently cleaned lightly using 95% ethanol; but besides that there have been no recent adjustments or maintenance completed that would explain the peak. It has grown from only a couple hundred thousand counts to almost 3 million and its dwarfing the m/z's when autotuning. The cutoff values are set from 50-264 on both MS1 and MS2 and still we are seeing the 42.10 peak continue to grow. If anyone has any insights it would be greatly appreciated thanks.

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  • Great.  The 219 and 502 are quite high. Make sure that the extractor lens insulator is clean, the extractor pin isn't touching the body, the brown extractor lens connector wire is connected well and not crimped, and that the transferline tip seal ceramic is clean.  This is not a big problem but 219 is more typically less than 140% or so of 69.

    The tune ion peak shapes are good.   I won't soon forget m/z 42...

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