Precision cold drawn seamless steel tube
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
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 truck
General process of cold drawing
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 degree 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.
Precision cold drawn
seamless steel tube
