Pipe bath after the machine thread?

GW

We generally just wipe the pipe and try and get some rag material inside the pipe after we thread. Anyone have a concoction to dunk their new thread into a bucket of cleaner solution? CLR?

Jamie Hall

Brake cleaner... in a spray can.

JUGHNE

Some piping added to an old steamer with no port for skimming. I used a 5 gallon bucket with hot water and Dawn DW detergent. Even brushed the inside. Then rinse well with hot water. I used the DHW drain valve for hot water source.
They get the bonus of flushing the bottom of the tank....otherwise it would never get done.

Sailah

At the Steam Dream Team job we used Brake Kleen after it was threaded followed by a wipe and then dunked in soapy water. That seemed to really clean off a lot of the oil.

We also only used the Ridgid spray oil, seemed to do well. And yeah I knocked over the oil pan so that may have something to do with it

1Matthias

Green can CRC brake cleaner if I'm not near any plastics. The green "50 state" formula is essentially acetone in a spray can, and will destroy plastics. Red can when I'm near plastics but not high temps. It's essentially chlorinated dry cleaning solvent. (Red can + fire/high temps = Bad, bad things, Phosgene included.)

GW

Cool ideas thanks