There are many ways to cut carbon steel tubes, such as oxyacetylene gas cutting, air plasma cutting, laser cutting, wire cutting, etc., can cut carbon steel. There are four common cutting methods:
(1) Flame cutting method: This cutting method has the lowest operating cost, but consumes more fluid seamless tubes and the cutting quality is poor. Therefore, manual flame cutting is often used as an auxiliary cutting method. However, due to the improvement of flame cutting technology, some factories have adopted multi-head flame cutting machine automatic cutting as the main method for cutting fluid carbon steel seamless tubes.
(2) Shearing method: This method has high production efficiency and low cutting cost. Medium-carbon seamless tubes and low-carbon alloy structural steel tubes are mainly cut by shearing. In order to improve the shearing efficiency, a large-tonnage shearing machine is used for double shearing; in order to reduce the flattening degree of the end of the steel tube during cutting, the cutting edge generally adopts a shaped blade. For seamless steel tubes that are prone to shear cracks, the steel pipes are preheated to 300°C during shearing.
(3) Fracture method: the equipment used is a fracture press. The breaking process is to use a cutting torch to cut all the holes at the predetermined breaking liquid pipe, then put it into a breaking press, and use a triangular ax to break it. The distance between the two points is 1-4 times the diameter Dp of the tube blank.
(4) Sawing method: This cutting method has the best cutting quality and is widely used in alloy steel tubes, high-pressure steel tubes, and fluid seamless tubes, especially for cutting large-diameter fluid seamless steel tubes and high-alloy steel tubes. Sawing devices include bow saws, band saws and circular saws. Cold circular saws with high-speed steel sector blades are used for cold sawing alloy steel tubes; cold circular saws with carbide blades are used for high-alloy steel saws.
Precautions for carbon steel tube cutting:
(1) Galvanized steel tubes and carbon steel pipes with a nominal diameter less than or equal to 50mm are generally suitable for cutting with a pipe cutter;
(2) High-pressure tubes and tubes with a tendency to harden should be cut by mechanical methods such as sawing machines and lathes. If oxyacetylene flame or ion cutting is used, the affected area of the cutting surface must be removed, and its thickness is generally not less than 0.5mm;
(3) Stainless steel tubes should be cut by mechanical or plasma methods;
Other steel tubes can be cut with oxyacetylene flame.
Post time: Feb-15-2023