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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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Certified Coating Inspector Forum: Volume 2

Leave a Comment / EBook / By Bill Corbett

This 2nd volume of the Certified Coating Inspector Forum is a compilation of 12 articles to help you stay up-to-date in the coatings industry.

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Let’s Talk About Measuring Coating Thickness Destructively

1 Comment / Dry Film Thickness / By Bill Corbett

Learn about destructively measuring coating thickness using a Tooke gage (or similar device) according to Procedure A in ASTM D4138

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Let’s Talk About Environmental Protection Using Containments

4 Comments / Jobsite / By Bill Corbett

Containments are frequently erected to protect the environment and public health and welfare. These same containments are often ventilated to protect both the environment and the workers inside. Coating inspectors frequently enter the containment to perform inspections of surface preparation and coating application work.

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Let’s Talk About Continuous Read Dry Film Thickness Measurement

2 Comments / Dry Film Thickness / By Bill Corbett

Continuous read/scanning technology is readily available and can be specified when a project would benefit from a greater population of thickness measurements to help ensure consistency of the applied coating across large surfaces.

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Let’s Talk About Coating/Lining Hardness Testing

4 Comments / Coatings / By Bill Corbett

The relative hardness of an applied coating or lining can be quantified using Pencil Hardness (thin film coatings) or Durometers (thick film coatings).

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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 About How Inspectors Can Effectively Use Product Data Sheets**

3 Comments / Coating Application, Coatings / By Bill Corbett

Product data sheets are a valuable tool for coating applicators as well as trained and certified coating inspectors. They are essentially an instruction manual for using the product. Unfortunately, many of us don’t read the instructions until it is too late.

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Certified Coating Inspector Forum: Volume 1

EBook / By Bill Corbett

It’s easy to fall behind on the latest updates in the coatings industry. That’s why KTA focuses on education to help keep AMPP and FROSIO coating inspectors current on standards, inspection practices, new instruments, and more. This first volume of the Certified Coating Inspector Forum, written by KTA’s COO William Corbett, is a compilation of

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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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