i have a customer asking for API5L x65 pipe. the closest i could find was API5L x60 with a yield of 72.5k, is there a difference in chemistry or anything else between these two specs?
Contact some pipe mills and ask what is the standard minimum mill run and the cost for a custom wall schedule.
Send him a copy of the standard pipe wall schedule chart (showing sch 60) and then give him data and cost for a mill that will do a custom mill run of schedule 65 pipe if he will send you the required wall thickness and his signed agreement to pay the inflated cost for the tooling and the custom run. Also tell him that he will have to pay for the total mill run even his project may only need a small amount.
We are talking about one single random needed by Friday. So getting the mill to roll is out of the question. The options to meet yield are this X60 or 4130. I'm just wondering if the inspector is just scared of the words on the page or if there is a real difference between x60 and x65 if the yield is that high.
For example. would this piece of pipe pass certification for x65 had the testing been for x65? but since the test was for x60 it was certified as x60. Or is there a difference in composition between the two grades regardless of tested yield.
I think you missed my point. There is a Schedule 60 commercially available but there is no such thing as a Schedule 65 commercially available. It would be a "special".
Carbon Pipe Spec x60 Vs. x65
Re: Carbon Pipe Spec x60 Vs. x65
