Thursday, July 28, 2011

STEEL STRUCTURES PAINTING COUNCIL

STEEL STRUCTURES PAINTING COUNCIL
The Steel Structures PaintingCouncil (SSPC) publishes specifications, which include surface preparation (SP), pretreatment (PT), paint application (PA), and paint and paint systems (PS). These specifications identify practical and economical methods of surface preparation and painting steel structures. They are used to clean and paint piping and other steel equipment. With the exception of paint and paint system specifications, the following are the commonly used SSPC specifications:

Surface Preparation (SP) Specifications
SSPC-Vis I-89     Pictorial Surface Preparation Standard for Painting Steel Surfaces
SSPC-Vis 2-82     Standard Method of Evaluating Degree of Rusting on Painted Steel Surfaces
SSPC-SP 1-82     Solvent Cleaning
SSPC-SP 2-95     Hand Tool Cleaning
SSPC-SP 3-95     Power Tool Cleaning
SSPC-SP 5-94     White Metal Blast Cleaning
SSPC-SP 6-94     Commercial Blast Cleaning
SSPC-SP 7-94     Brush-Off Blast Cleaning
SSPC-SP 8-91     Pickling
SSPC-SP 10-94     Near-White Blast Cleaning
SSPC-SP 11-95     Power Tool Cleaning and Base Metal

Pretreatment Specifications (PT)
SSPC-PT 1     Wetting Oil Treatment
SSPC-PT 2     Cold Phosphate Surface Treatment
SSPC-PT 3     Basic Zinc Chromate-Vinyl Butyral Washcoat
SSPC-PT 4     Hot Phosphate Surface Treatment

Paint Application (PA) Guides
SSPC-PA I-91     Shop, Field, and Maintenance Painting
SSPC-PA 2-91     Measurement of Dry Paint Thickness with Magnetic Gauges

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