20m extra-long pipe straightening
How a 20 m long, 200 mm diameter pipe was straightened to 0.27 mm without surface damage using automatic multi-point inspection and precise pressure control.
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How a 20 m long, 200 mm diameter pipe was straightened to 0.27 mm without surface damage using automatic multi-point inspection and precise pressure control.
Why a 630t auto press with multi-point detection, flexible head, and point-pressure correction handles 12m×400mm scaled pipe.
Automatic straightening holds linear shafts to 0.098 mm straightness. Auto loading cuts manual handling and keeps results repeatable.
Starting at 3.431 mm of bow, a 5 m steel round bar was straightened to 1.313 mm using 250 t point-pressure and multi-point sensors.
Even with a dial indicator and a press, getting a shaft down to under a few tenths of a millimeter of runout takes patience — and a lot of back-and-forth. When production volume picks up, manual straightening becomes a real bottleneck.
I’ve walked through too many pipe fabrication shops where the 8-meter lengths get straightened on a 200-ton press with a simple V-block setup—and the results are all over the place.