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Scope

This standard establishes and updates general finish codes and serves as a general guide to the selection of suitable materials, procedures, and system for cleaning, plating, painting and otherwise finishing of metal and wood surfaces.

Notes

Claudia's Notes:
The purpose of this standard is to establish finish system codes which link or cross reference specific specification information for finishing and otherwise treating metal and wood surfaces. It also serves as a general guide to the selection of suitable finishing materials, procedures, and systems.

It covers both organic (paint, varnish, and the like) and inorganic (metal plating, phosphatized metal, and the like) coatings. Specialized systems particular to individual agencies are covered by drawings, specifications and standards published by those organizations and supplement this standard. Such procurement documents should make direct reference to the applicable specification.

For example, MIL-STD-186 covers painting and other finishing of Army Missile weapon systems. Finish system code numbers in the tables shall not be changed in future revisions of this standard, in as much as those code numbers should be referenced on drawings, in contracts and in end items specifications.

Where a system in a previous edition of MIL-STD-171 has been deleted from the revision, the system to be used as a substitute is noted in the tables.

For convenience in referencing, all procedures, whether they merely clean a surface, deposit a film, or perform some other desirable function, are cataloged as “finishes”.

To find similar documents by Federal Supply Class Code:

FSC Standardization Area MFFP (Metal Finishes and Finishing Processes and Procedures)

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