ASTM-B640 › Historical Revision Information
Standard Specification for Welded Copper Tube for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Service

ASTM-B640 - 2012A EDITION - SUPERSEDED
Show Complete Document History

Document Center Inc. is an authorized dealer of ASTM standards.
The following bibliographic material is provided to assist you with your purchasing decision:


This specification establishes the requirements for welded copper for air conditioning and refrigeration service for use in connections, repairs, and alterations. The material of manufacture shall be sheet or strip of Copper Alloy UNS No. C10100, or C10200, or C12000, or C12200 of such purity and soundness as to be suitable for processing into welded tube to meet the properties prescribed. The product shall be manufactured by forming the material into a tubular shape on a suitable forming mill and welded using an automatic process. The product shall be cold worked to the finished size and wall thickness and subsequently annealed to meet the temper properties specified. The material shall conform to the chemical compositional requirements for the Copper UNS No. designation specified. Tensile strength test, expansion test, microscopical examination, hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility, flattening test, reverse bend test, electromagnetic test, and cleanness test shall be made to conform to specified requirements.

ORDER

Scope

1.1 This specification establishes the requirements for welded copper tube for air conditioning and refrigeration service for use in connections, repairs, and alterations. The tube shall be made from one of the following coppers:

Copper UNS No.

Previously Used Designation

Type of Copper

 

 

 

C10100

OFE

Oxygen-free electronic

C10200

OF

Oxygen-free without-residual oxidants

C12000

DLP

Phosphorus-deoxidized, low-residual phosphorus

C12200

DHP

Phosphorus-deoxidized, high-residual phosphorus

 


Note 1—Fittings used for soldered or brazed connections in air conditioning and refrigeration systems are described in ASME Standard B 16.22.
Note 2—The assembly of copper tubular systems by soldering is described in Practice B828.
Note 3—Solders for joining copper tubular systems by descirbed in Specification B32. The requirements for acceptable fluxes for these systems are described in Specification B813.

1.2 Copper UNS No. C12200 shall be furnished, unless otherwise specified. The copper tube shall be supplied in annealed coils or drawn temper straight lengths.

1.3 Units—Values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units which are provided for information only and are not considered standard.

1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

Keywords

air conditioning tube; refrigeration tube; welded copper tube; UNS No. C10100; UNS No. C10200; UNS No. C12000; UNS No. C12200

To find similar documents by ASTM Volume:

02.01 (Copper and Copper Alloys)

To find similar documents by classification:

77.150.30 (Copper products)

This document comes with our free Notification Service, good for the life of the document.

This document is available in either Paper or PDF format.

Document Number

ASTM-B640-12a

Revision Level

2012A EDITION

Status

Superseded

Modification Type

Revision

Publication Date

Jan. 15, 2013

Document Type

Specification

Page Count

9 pages

Committee Number

B05.04