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Tube & Pipe From SCS
SCS is becoming a material of choice for tubers, replacing hot rolled black and HRPO. Why? First, there's no rust and no oil. It's so clean and flat that it welds better and can even weld faster. In production trials, SCS tube was judged "ready-to-weld" and "ready-to-paint" right off the mill. But SCS offers even more:
- much leaner paint prep
- no slipping in tube mill
- improved weld strength
- reduced welding fumes
- no hazardous post-pickling
- no dirt/scale to foul tube mill
"Our customer says the SCS tubes we make look like cold rolled and they no longer have to shot blast to clean and remove rust prior to painting."
To maximize the SCS benefits, process adaptations may be warranted, such as replacing oil-based lubricants with a water-based lubricant. This helps make SCS tubes "ready-to-paint" right from the mill.
A producer of round and rectangular tubes found
SCS coil, with no edge wave, gave a better weld
seam. Coupled with SCS' ultra-clean surface, this
let them weld more consistently and, therefore,
run the tube mill faster.
After running their first coil of SCS, the mill operator
of this major pipe producer commented: "That's the nicest 14 ga. material I've run in my 20 years here.
It provides a cleaner base for our UV coating and I
think it will make our welding contacts last longer."
A tuber making safety railing from hot rolled black
coil said its customers sandblast their tube prior to
painting. The tube they made from from SCS coil
was so clean it could pass for cold rolled and their
customers could skip sandblasting completely.
