Cold Drawn Seamless tube, Cold Drawn Seamless tubing

 Cold Drawn Seamless tubing (also known as CDS). Cold Drawn Seamless tubes offer tight tolerances compared to Hot Finished Seamless tube, and offers stronger physical properties compared to other mechanical tubing.cold-drawn-seamless-tube

CDS is popular in the hydraulics, being used to make hollowed chrome plated telescopic cylinders and hydraulic rods. It is also popular for large bore, heavy walled, high pressure hydraulic cylinders. Cold Drawn Seamless tubes also find uses in heavy equipment manufacturing such as cranes and garbage trucks.

BARREL TYPE CROSS ROLL PIERCING PROCESS

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This cold drawing process continues until the tube is at its specified final dimensions.

In this process, rounds are heated in the rotary hearth furnace/ slope type fixed bed heating furnace to a forming temperature of approximately 1280 degree C. This is followed by a high pressure water jet descaling, prior to which the bloom is pierced in the cross roll piercing mill to produce a thin-walled hollow shell which is elongated to between 3 and 4.5 times its original length. The elongation corresponds to a deformation level between 65 % and 75%. Owing to the relatively large angle of roll inclination, and higher rolling speeds, stock exit speed in the case of barrel-type piercer is considerably faster than in Mannesmann piercing mills.

General process of cold drawing
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1 General process of cold drawing
1.1 THERE ARE THREE BASIC PROCESSES EMPLOYED FOR THE COLD DRAWING OF TUBE:
1.2 ANNEALING
1.3 STRAIGHTENING
1.4 EDDY CURRENT
1.5 FINISHING
A considerable proportion of the seamless tubes and pipes manufactured through the cold roll piercing technology undergo subsequent cold forming. The principal reasons behind cold drawing are:

Achievement of closer wall thickness and diameter tolerance
Improvement in surface finish
To enhance serviceability
No premature failure
Suitable for critical forming Such as 180˚ Bends
Enhancement of mechanical properties of the tube
Expansion of product mix towards the lower end of the OD and wall thickness scales.
THERE ARE THREE BASIC PROCESSES EMPLOYED FOR THE COLD DRAWING OF TUBE:
Hollow drawing
Stationery drawing or floating plug drawing and
Drawing over a mandrel (also known as drawing on-the-bar)
ANNEALING
After the goods are cold drawn to sizes, the tubes are put on annealing furnace for heat treatment and normalising.

STRAIGHTENING
Post annealing, the goods are passed through a seven roller straightening machine to achieve proper straightening of the tubes.

EDDY CURRENT
Post straightening, each tube is passed through eddy current machine to detect for surface cracks and other defects . Only the tubes that pass eddy current are fit for delivery to customers.

FINISHING
Each tube is either oiled with corrosion resistant oil or varnished for surface protection and corrosion resistant as per customers requirement, each tube end is covered by plastic end caps to avoid damage in transit, the marking and specs are put and the goods are ready for dispatch.