Your browser is out of date.

You are currently using Internet Explorer 7/8/9, which is not supported by our site. For the best experience, please use one of the latest browsers.

Mechanical (ERW) Steel Tubing

Mechanical Tube is manufactured to extremely tight tolerances tailored to each customer’s specifications, whether it be ASTM or their own internal standards.

Lock Joint Tube produces cold formed, high frequency electric resistance welded tubing. Among the several applications, ERW steel tubing has the broadest range of applications. LJT electric resistance welded tubing is known in the industry as having tight dimensional tolerances, exceptional straightness and twist control, and world-class surface finishes for given material selection

As your welded mechanical (ERW) steel tubing supplier, we look forward to working with you and meeting your specific needs!

Contact Us

The LJT Advantage

  • Tubing that withstands simple to extreme fabrications
  • Fabrications include single and multiple planar mandrel bending, roll bending, flattening, hydroforming, flaring, coining, drilling, punching, flow drilling, threading, rotary and die swaging, arc welding, friction welding, orbital welding, saw cutting, shearing, laser cutting, coving, post hot dip galvanizing, and heat treating
  • Tubing from HRPO, HRBL, CR, Galvanized steel, Galvannealed steel, Hot Dip Aluminized steel

Why LJT Mechanical Tubing?

  • Performance excellence with fabrication – repeatable and predictable
  • Controlled variation in mechanical properties
  • Tight dimensional tolerances with OD, outer dimensions, wall thickness
  • Exceptional straightness for laser cutting
  • Superior finishes for exposed surfaces with Hot Rolled and Cold Rolled products as needed for painting and plating applications
  • Reliable weldability and formability
  • Telescoping capabilities or interference fitting as needed

Current Available Material Types for LJT Mechanical Tubing:

Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled (HRPO)

Hot Rolled Black (HRBL)

Cold Rolled (CR, CR Half Hard, CR Full Hard)

Galvanized (HR or CR substrate)

Aluminized (HR or CR substrate)

we can accommodate special & unique requirements

Custom Tubing Solutions for Your Application

Mechanical ERW Tubing Shapes & Sizes

We have 360 OD's in a variety of shapes including rounds, squares, rectangles, ovals, non-semetrical, and specialty shapes.

Our Mechanical ERW tubing comes in the following sizes:

 

RoundSquareRectangleOval
.605” up to 6.137”.75 x .75 up to 5.25”.321” x 1.048” up to 3” x 6”.227” x 1.176” up to 4.650” x 5.694

 

LJT also offers custom shapes including but not limited to hexagons, pentagons, triangles, flat ovals, asymmetric and specialty tubing. Contact our experts today for personalized assistance in choosing the perfect Mechanical ERW tubing for your project.

Mechanical Tubing Profiles:

 

Contact an Expert

Mechanical Tube Specifications:

 

Mechanical Tube Industries/Applications:

Lock Joint Tube currently provides mechanical tubing in numerous applications for:

 

 

Have a Question?
Our experts can help

Give us a call at 800-257-6859 or leave us a message.

Ask a Tubing Expert