Buyer guides, technical notes, maintenance checks and RFQ advice for copper mould tubes, water jackets, mould assemblies and dummy bars — the parts that keep a billet caster running.
Seven defects that take a copper mould tube out of service, what each looks like, what causes it, and what to check on the caster before the next tube goes in. Written for the engineer whose billets have started coming out wrong.
A worn tube with sound copper can be re-machined and re-plated for a fraction of the new price. When repair makes sense, when it does not, and the seven steps from inspection to a re-plated tube.
Every buyer asks for a number of heats. The honest answer is a list of the eleven factors that decide tube life, and the six signs that tell you a tube is finished, whatever the heat count.
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