Re: [CR]Question about Columbus Cromor tubing.

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From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Question about Columbus Cromor tubing.
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:57:26 -0500


Below from a google search; don't know if correct Angel Garcia, Long Valley, NJ:

"From what I can tell there isn't alot of difference between the tubesets other than the way they are produced.

For Columbus SL and SLX (Seamless):

The tubes are produced from a solid billet of steel pierced and drawn to the necessary dimensions.

Columbus Cromor (seamed):

Seamed tubes are produced by rolling sheet into a tube and welding it up. The resulting pipe is then drawn down and cold worked to its final dimensions; the seam is worked into the tube and becomes invisible to all except electron microscopes

I don't think there is a significant weight difference in the 2 tubesets."


> Can some one tell me what the heck Columbus Cromor tubing is? I am uncertain
> of this is within the CR time line, but I went to the Columbus web site and
> they no longer --as far as I can see--have any info on it. Was it seamed tubing?
> Was it dubble butted? How much thicker than SL was it? Any help would be most
> apprecaited.
> cheers-
> Dave Anderson
> Cut Bank MT