Can steel cylinders be glass beaded?

[Colliam7]

I tumble cylinders with inert glass beads to clean them for oxygen service. There will still always be some flash rust due to drying. Heavy oxidation will require diffent media.

Ditto. I O2 clean my HP120s with glass beads and Simple Green and it takes care of the rust. Yes, after drying there is a minor amount of flash rust, but that is almost inevitable. I haven't been faced with heavy oxidation so I don't have experience with beads under those conditions.

 

[cummings66]

You can greatly reduce the flash rust to about 0 if you blast it with an inert gas such as Nitrogen, or Argon (expensive though, but I have it on hand). If you use air you'll get an even coating of light flash that doesn't seem to get worse. I don't care for it for PP fills and make sure I have no flash for that usage.