Mud Gun
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Mud Gun is designed for use in a solids control
Solids control
Solids control is a technique used for well drilling to provide prepared drilling fluids for drilling rigs. Drilling fluid maintenance cost, clean up, and disposal cost as well as the overall cost of boring can be reduced dramatically when proper solids control techniques are utilized...

 system of a Drilling Rig .It is one kind of special tool which mainly uses for mixing drilling mud in the circulatory system and prevents the mud precipitates. The structure of equipment is simple, flexible Operation and easy using. A mud gun is the ideal equipment to guard against precipitates in a solids control system. The mud gun is installed in a mud tank
Mud tank
A mud tank is an open-top container, typically made of steel, to store drilling fluid on a drilling rig. They are also called mud pits, because they used to be nothing more than pits dug out of the earth....

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Furthermore, it is usually used together with mud agitator. They have similar configuration principle on one mud tank

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Mud Gun is a helping tool installed inside the mud tanks and mainly used to agitate the drilling fluid while it is stored inside the tanks in order to keep the mud homogeneous and in good condition.
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