Thanks for the help.
The customer is a major UK/US aerospace manufacturer so should be working to the latest revision specs.
However, the query came from the customer's buying department - they believed there could be cost reductions to be made by using seamless rather that welded & drawn tube.
Hi to All,
I have a customer requirement for AMS 5561B Type 1 Class 1 tube; the customer says that the tube must be drawn NOT welded.
However, Para 3.3 (Fabrication) of AMS 5561B states that "Tubing shall be produced by a welded and drawn process."
Also, AMS 5561B doesn't reference any Types...
Thanks, these are good background information but I was hoping that someone had experience of joining aluminium to inconel.
We have quite a lot of experience with torch/induction brazing of aluminium alloys and inconel alloys but have never brazed the two together.
We have a customer who is...
I work as a sub-contractor for both the aerospace and automotive industries and, generally speaking, most company specifications state that drawings released for manufacture should be to a "letter" revision.
Pre-production drawings are normally given a "number" issue until...