omnicrom.
Thirty years after Columbus and the Institute of Welding of Paris first studied what heat does to steel, Omnicrom is the answer: an aerospace-descended CrMo enriched with Vanadium, re-fused for regularity of structure, and drawn into the spines of Spirit, Life and Cento.
the numbers.
Figures from the Columbus 2024 steel catalogue. Test bars, not marketing bars.
| 1300MPa | ultimate tensile strength — race-grade load before failure | UTS |
| ≥ 920MPa | yield strength — the elastic limit of the drawn tube | YS |
| > 15% | elongation at break, measured on Ap5 — strength with ductility | AP5 |
| 980°C | austenitizing point Ac3 — the temperature where the crystal opens | AC3 |
refined, re-fused.
“A new era of steel is not a new marketing name. It is a crystal structure you control from the moment the casting solidifies.”
Omnicrom descends from the low-carbon Chromium-Molybdenum alloys of the aircraft industry, enriched with Vanadium and refined under a highly controlled production process. The steel is re-fused to grant regularity of structure — so the tube you braze behaves like the tube we tested.
Unprecedented performance, excellent weldability, and walls drawn down to 0.38 mm in the Spirit set.
- Base
- low-carbon CrMo
- Addition
- vanadium
- Lineage
- aerospace
- Control
- cast → finished tube
made for the flame.
“The Paris welding study was about one question — what survives the torch. Omnicrom is the thirty-year answer.”
TIG-weld with OK TIGROD 13.12 (AWS 5.28 ER 80S-G) or braze with Castolin Silver Alloy 38230. With the austenitizing point at 980 °C, the builder has a wide, honest window before the structure begins to change — heat discipline rewarded, never punished.
- TIG filler
- OK TIGROD 13.12
- AWS
- 5.28 ER 80S-G
- Braze
- CASTOLIN 38230
- Ac3 window
- 980 °C