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Get To The Bottom of It The battle for pipeline integrity is won or lost right here. Cleaning to the bottom of the pits to remove microbes, debris, or water is a job for pencil brushes (Figure 1). The old fashioned flat wire brushes are not flexible enough or small enough to get to the bottom of the pits. Pigs without brushes act as a spatula and spread the debris out in the pipeline and cover up...

I just got back from my trip to Western Canada where I visited one new company and two current customers. The new customer had used our pencil brushes once before but did not have the success with them that we usually see. When I looked at the pigs and brushes they had run, it was obvious they were using the wrong length of pencil brushes. They had ordered brushes from a distributor without...