Get Excellent Add-Ons for Tube Cleaning

Tube cleaning is a very important protective measure from avoiding the tube equipment from getting eroded or deteriorated. Tube cleaning requires some extra accessories for the operations to carry on actively.

 

Types of Accessories Used While Tube Cleaning

 

   v  Flexible Shafts

 

   v  Buffing tools to have cleaning of larger radius tube

 

v     Shaft repair tools to get internal tube cleaning

 

v     Brushes for removal of soft scales while cleaning tube

 

v     Coloured coded scrubbers for the tube cleaning

 

v     Carbide drills to clean heavily jammed tubes

 

v      Wheel brush tools to get Straight Tube Cleaning

 

v      Cone tools for perfect cleaning of larger tube cleaning

 

v      Internal tube cleaning tools

 

Flexible Shafts

 

Ø     While ordering these accessories the tube size or range should be watched out.

 

Ø     With the help of the color codes, one can easily identify these shafts.

 

Ø      The shafts with inner steel casing will last longer than the other types of shafts.

 

Ø      They have a lot of flexibility and resistance to corrosion.

 

 Buffing Tools for Larger Radius Internal Cleaning

 

ü     These tools are specially used for the final polishing and removal of deposits from ferrous and non-ferrous tubes which are already cleaned.

 

tü     These are to be used only in a clockwise direction only.

 

Examples of such tools: PBT-7

                                       PBT-7-T

                                       PBB-5

 

Shaft Repair Tools

 

These include U-tube tools, cup brush tools and wheel brush tools

Also include cobalt tip tools shaft replacement couplings.

 

Brushes

 

Types are

·         Brass Brushers

·         Stainless Steel Brushers

·         Drill Tip Double Diameter Brushes

·         Nylon Brushes

·         Brass Brushes

·         Stainless Steel Brushes

·         Plastic Brushes

·         Carbon Steel Brushes

 

 

Colour Coded Scrubbers

 

These are employed in general to remove light to medium deposits in condensers. HIGH PRESSURE AIR GUN is used.

 

Features of these scrubbers

 

o   These are shot thru tubes used with a gun that contains compressed air and water

o   Reusable

o   They easily float for easy removal.

 

Cabride Drills for Heavily Chocked Tubes

 

These are used to clean tubes choked solidly with hard and stony deposits inside the tubes.

 

Circular Brush Tools

 

They have 4 stainless steel circular brushes. They are used to clean soft and medium scales.

These are employed for STRAIGHT and CURVED tubes.

 

Cone Tools

 

Types

 

§     One cone tool

§  t  two cone tool

§  t  three cone tool

 

One Cone Tool:  It has 1 cone fitted on a joint and used when there is no severe scale build up

 

Two Cone Tool:  It has 2 cones fitted on a joint and used when there is a severe scale build up in the tube.

 

Three Cone Tool: It has 3 cones fitted on a base and also used when scale build up is very severe.

 

Scrapper Tool

 

These use scrapper blades. These are used with the coupling of brushes and are used in the cleaning operation which has very hard and severe deposits.

 

Combination Cone

 

This combination tool is used with extreme hardness of a drill. It is used when hard deposits are found.

 

Internal Tube Cleaning Tools

 

Typically used in boilers and other larger tubes those have light to medium deposit.

 

Wing Tools

 

Three Types

 

Ø     Flexible arm carbide ball tip

Ø     Flexible nylon rod

Ø     Flexible arm cutter

 

Thus, these tube cleaning accessories help in all ways of cleaning different tubes with different ranges of deposits and way of cleaning procedures.