Is it possible to clean SS Liner through thimble

[Hampy123]

Is it possible to clean a chimney liner through the thimble/tee and up?
Getting a new stove and stainless liner installed in a couple of weeks. Where its a new setup and I haven't burned in over a decade, I would like to do a quick sweep once or twice during the heating season. I would get it professionally cleaned annually beyond that. House has a metal roof that I have no desire to try and get on during the winter.
Wasn't sure if one of those rotary cleaners like the sooteater had enough flex to make the bend, or if someone had another cleaver idea they have done. Thought I read somewhere about someone using a large 45 degree plumbing elbow as a sleeve for the rotary cleaner and getting it to work.

 

[stoveliker]

Yes, that is what I do; I take off the stove pipe, go in horizontally through the thimble, and then bend 90 degrees up into the liner.
I have the white-rod sooteater.

 

[Hampy123]

Great thanks for the info! Would not have know there was a difference with the colored rods.

 

[kborndale]

I have both white and black rods and they both go thru the thimble and make the 90 up the chimney. The white rods do make the turn easier.