Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations SSS148 on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by FireRat

  1. FireRat

    Cleaning Hydraulic lines

    We get the pipes pickled before we use them so in theory there is nothing in them but maybe a little oil. The projectiles come out brown and sometimes black, we aren't sure if it's rust or something leaching out of the pipe while baking. All resources I can find on cleaning hydrolic tube is...
  2. FireRat

    Cleaning Hydraulic lines

    Hi, we have tried cleaning them before powder coat and we have not noticed a difference. We also tried venting the caps to let out anything inside while baking and still no noticeable difference.
  3. FireRat

    Cleaning Hydraulic lines

    Hello, I have a question about cleaning rigid hydraulic lines. My company manufacturers rigid steel hydraulic lines and we also powder coat them. No the problem I have is that somewhere along our process the insides become incredibly dirty and oily. We use the ultra-clean projectile system to...

Part and Inventory Search