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Let’s Talk About Reviewing Daily Coating Inspection Reports

Leave a Comment / Inspection / By Bill Corbett

KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Volume 4, Issue No. 4 – August 2025 William Corbett, Technical Consultant AMPP Senior Certified Coating Inspector & Certified Protective Coating Specialist 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 […]

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Let’s Talk About Preparing for Inspection Before You Mobilize

5 Comments / Coating Inspector Forum, Inspection / By Bill Corbett

Discover nine essential pre-project responsibilities for coating inspectors to ensure project success and avoid common pitfalls.

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Let’s Talk About Inspection Planning

4 Comments / Inspection / By Bill Corbett

A properly prepared Inspection Test Plan can provide a roadmap of what to inspect, how to inspect, and what the acceptance criteria are, while minimizing the risk of missing an inspection checkpoint, or invoking an incorrect requirement. This article describes the importance of planning and preparation prior to performing inspection on a coatings project.

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Let’s Talk About the Importance of Documentation

5 Comments / Inspection / By Bill Corbett

Regardless of which party you are working for, documentation of inspection data is a critical role for a trained/certified inspector, albeit oftentimes one of the more dreaded tasks.

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Let’s Talk Measuring Intumescent (Fireproofing) Coating Thickness

2 Comments / Fireproofing, Inspection, SSPC / By Bill Corbett

In the case of CSP and intumescent systems, if they are not applied to the correct thickness across all surfaces of load-bearing steel members or panels/plates and there is a fire event, catastrophic collapse due to heat transfer to the steel can occur resulting in potential loss of life.

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Let’s Talk Abrasive Testing in the Shop/Field

Abrasives, Coating Inspector Forum, Inspection / By Bill Corbett

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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Let’s Talk Stripe Coating Inspection

Coating Inspector Forum, Coatings, Inspection, Uncategorized / By Bill Corbett

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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Cleaning and Painting Aluminum Substrates

Aluminum Substrates, Inspection, Instruments / By Robert Leggat

Introduction – Aluminum and aluminum alloys exhibit good corrosion resistance by virtue of a layer of aluminum oxide that forms on the surface. While aluminum is often not coated because of its good corrosion resistance properties, there are occasions when coatings are applied to provide added protection in given environments (e.g., when the pH is

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Podcast #10 – Types of Inspector Certifications

Inspection, Podcast / By KTA Staff

This podcast discusses different types of inspector certifications to hopefully provide clarity on the subject, since there are a number of inspector certifications available through organizations like SSPC, NACE, and more. Featuring KTA Chief Operating Officer, Bill Corbett, and moderated by KTA President, Ken Trimber. You can view the podcast on Youtube, listen on Soundcloud,

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Coating Inspection Instruments: Frequency of Calibration and Accuracy/Functionality Verification

Inspection, Instruments / By Russell Dameron and Bill Corbett

Quality programs frequently require instrumentation used to obtain measurements (to determine conformance to a governing specification) to be calibrated and verified for accuracy, but oftentimes do not provide the frequency or methodology; only that it must be done. This brief article explains calibration, verification of accuracy, and adjustment, and contains a convenient reference table listing

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