Discover nine essential pre-project responsibilities for coating inspectors to ensure project success and avoid common pitfalls.
Let’s Talk About Preparing for Inspection Before You Mobilize Read More »
Learn the key differences between common ISO, SSPC/NACE, and ASTM standards for coating inspections.
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Learn about the four W’s of Holiday/Pinhole Detection (What, When, Where, and Why), performing low and high voltage holiday detection, the steps that should be performed prior to testing including calibration and field verification, and the importance of calculating and selecting the proper test voltage when using a high voltage detector.
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Testing of new and recycled abrasive is an important, yet frequently overlooked inspection checkpoint. Abrasive cleanliness is an indirect or referenced requirement for each of the joint SSPC/NACE abrasive blast cleaning surface cleanliness standards.
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KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Issue No. 4 KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum is designed to provide professional development/continuing education on standards, inspection practices, new instruments, and other topics to help keep certified AMPP and FROSIO coating inspectors current. It represents the views of the author and KTA-Tator, Inc. It may or may not represent
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KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Issue No. 1 – May 2022 KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum is designed to provide continuing education on standards, inspection practices, new instruments, and other topics to help keep certified AMPP and FROSIO coating inspectors current. It is occasionally written blog style, and represents the views of the author and
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