[TheForge] Pipe nomenclature

[Ries Niemi]

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 09:05 AM, Dave Brown wrote:

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> I found some 36" pieces of 6" diameter pipe.  It had printed 
> lengthways ... "TURKEY HEAT   ASTM ??" <?? means it was quite 
> illegible, but I think it may have been 52 or 56 or 6<something>.  
> Anyone got a clue?  In spite of the "turkey heat" labeling, I'm sure 
> it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving.
>


Not much doubt- this pipe was made in Turkey, the country.
the heat no. is just so it can be traced back to a particular day, and 
hopefully a set of chemical tests and specs on file for that heat 
number.
the ASTM no. means it meets a spec from the American Society  for 
Testing and Materials

I have gotten pipe, as well as rebar, stainless bar, and square tubing, 
from a lot of different countries- Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, France, 
Germany, Canada, Japan, and even the USA- my supplier buys whatever is 
cheapest, and he buys from a variety of sources- a lot of the stuff we 
get in the northwest is actually domestic, from Nucor mills in Seattle, 
Oregon, and Utah. But if the indonesian rebar is cheaper, he may buy 
that.
The Turks are actually quite an industrialised country. They 
manufacture all kinds of machinery and tools as well. Many "guest 
workers" from Turkey work in Germany, and some of them go home with 
their grubstake and set up factories. I have a set of Turkish sheet 
metal rolls- 14ga x 4ft, motorised, which are very nicely made, and 
were quite reasonably priced, new.
The Turks also make the sahinler  air hammers which  brian russell 
sells, and the ones tom clark sells as well- I think they are two 
different brands of Kuhn copies.

ries