Patent ID: 8196480

Claim:
A method of providing a sample fluid conditioning apparatus, comprising the steps of: a. Establishing a fluid communication order of sample conditioning components to effect conditioning of said sample fluid in a modular fluid system; b. Designing a layout of fluid passages to fluidly interconnect said sample conditioning components to said modular fluid system; c. Providing a component docking platform having a mounting surface, said component docking platform having a series of holes formed laterally therethrough in a layout associated with step “b”, each of said holes forming an inner wall; d. Providing a series of tubes for engagement to said docking platform in a layout associated with step “b”, each said tube having an end and an outer diameter to engage a respective hole, such that said outer diameter of each said tube is engaged in fluid impermeable manner to said inner wall of said hole, each said tube having a length emanating from said component docking platform opposite said mounting surface of said component docking platform; e. Mounting said sample conditioning components to said mounting surface of said component docking platform so as to communicate with said enclosed fluid passages in the fluid communication order of Step “A”.