1 Scope
This document specifies the composition, property requirements and tolerances on dimensions
and form for seamless round drawn copper and copper alloy tubes for general purposes
supplied in the size range from 3 mm up to and including 450 mm outside diameter and
from 0,3 mm up to and including 20 mm wall thickness.
The sampling procedures and the methods of test for verification of conformity to
the requirements of this document are also specified.
NOTE Tubes having an outside diameter less than 80 mm and/or a wall thickness greater than
2 mm in certain alloys are most frequently used for free machining purposes which
are specified in EN 12168.