TPi November 2013

Stainless steel tubes

“stainless steel tubing is an industry sweetheart.” The otherwise unemotional source of this valentine is an Internet provider of supplier information on components, equipment, Mro (maintenance, repair, overhaul) products, and custom manufacturing services — whose website makes it plain that this is no idle tribute to surface beauty. In aircraft hydraulic lifts and car mufflers, catalytic converters and heat lines, gas lines and

refrigerator coils, stainless steel tubing is shown to be the component of choice when strength, corrosion resistance, and a long, reliable service life are essential. a sweetheart? The architects, engineers, and builders who discern the superiority of stainless steel tubing early and renew their preference for it over the course of their careers will have no argument with the sentiment.