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Apparatus of producing or testing with a welding or testing instrument welded spiral-seamed tubes formed of a steel band, which comprises rolling a steel band in a continuous spiral so as to form a rotating tube-shaped body; placing on the steel band at a constant spacing from an edge of the steel band extending toward a given welding location thereon, a premagnetized tape containing a ferromagnetic material adhering to the steel band and carrying a marking line disposed parallel to the edge of the steel band; sensing the marking line and regulating in accordance therewith the orientation of at least one of the welding and testing instruments with respect to the edge of the steel band so that the instrument and the given welding location are momentarily in registry as the tube-shaped body rotates; and withdrawing the premagnetized tape from the steel band after the steel band edge of the tube-shaped body has rotated past a second one of the instruments in the travel direction of the steel band edge; and apparatus for carrying out the method.
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