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Message: <blockquote data-quote="koko" data-source="post: 128573" data-attributes="member: 20778">Purchased a T300 & tilt rams were leaking & making a mess in my shop. When I disassembled them I found fines in the recesses so decided to do all cylinders. Rebuilt them & built new pins then decided to clean the system before start up. Drained the holding tank & flushed several times with cleaned hyd. fluid. I have a system set up that I can filter fluid down to 1 micron. I used this fluid to flush all the hoses. I had also used a couple of rare earth magnets, very strong, to aid in cleaning the tank which is plastic. After cleaning all to satisfaction I replaced all line filters & system filters & flushed system with new hyd. oil. Before closing the holding tank I connected one of my rare earth magnets to a very stiff wire & placed the magnet near the return port to the tank, bent the other end of the wire to fit over the fill spigot before clamping the rubber hose that connects the outside fill port.After using the unit for a day & pulled out the magnet to see what I had collected & it showed that I did a very good job of cleaning the system. I will continue to leave that magnet in the tank for periodic monitoring.</blockquote>