To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.
A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
A piece or strip of metal produced to a suitable thickness, width and edge configuration, from which welded pipe is made.
Steel or iron plate from which pipe or tubing is made.
Steel that is the entry material to a pipe mill. It resembles hot-rolled strip, but its properties allow for the severe forming and welding operations required for pipe production.
Steel plate or sheet from which welded tubing or pipe is manufactured.
Steel plate or strip from which pipe or tubing is made by rolling the skelp into shape longitudinally and welding the edges together.
coiled strips of plate steel used to produce welded seam pipe
A Skelp (also spelled Scelp) is a band of iron commonly forged from melted scrap iron of inferior quality. Cheap gun barrels could be made from this in the Damascus method - wrapping the skelps around a mandrel to make spirals which were then hammered and forged into a tube. The mandrel was then removed, the interior reamed, and the exterior filed until a finished tube was complete.