ASTM A967/A967M Updated – Chemical Passivation

ASTM A967/A967M has just been updated with the release of the new 2017 Edition.  This specification is a best seller here at Document Center Inc.  The title is Standard Specification for Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts.  This new revision replaces the previous 2013 Edition, which is now obsolete.  (For more information on the old edition, please see my post from 2013:  New ASTM A967/A967M 2013 Edition).

The specification covers a number of chemical passivation treatments for stainless steel parts.  You’ll be given recommendations (and precautions) for descaling, cleaning and passivation.  To confirm effectiveness, several alternative tests are provided.

Changes to ASTM A967/A967M 2017 are extensive.  Here are the areas that the committee has highlighted for your review:

  • Section 4 has been expanded
  • Subsection 5.2.1 is revised
  • Note 2 has been added
  • The use of “supplier” replaces all references to “seller” and “processor”
  • Alternatives to immersion are now provided in 6.1.1 and 7.1.1
  • Dry time has been modified in 14.1.2
  • The cleaning and drying requirement for 14.2.3 is now to be found in X2.10
  • The restriction on copper sulfate test for food equipment in 14.4.1 is removed
  • Procedures in 14.4.3 and 14.5.3 have been expanded and Section 14.7 is added
  • There’s a new Appendix X2 (it includes X1.3.2 through X1.3.4 and X1.12)
  • X1.3.1 through X1.3.4 have been added (from QQ-P-35 Revision C).  This includes corrections to Table X1.1

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New ASTM A967/A967M 2013 Edition on Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts

ASTM A967/A967M 2013 Edition has just been released and is available from Document Center Inc. in either paper or pdf format.  Titled “Standard Specification for Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts,” the new revision is one of our go-to documents for chemical passivation.  It includes recommendations and precautions for descaling, cleaning, and passivation of stainless steel parts.

Included are the following tests:

  1. Practice AWater Immersion Test,
  2. Practice BHigh Humidity Test,
  3. Practice CSalt Spray Test,
  4. Practice DCopper Sulfate Test,
  5. Practice EPotassium Ferricyanide–Nitric Acid Test, and
  6. Practice FDamp Cloth Test.

This practice references QQ-P-35 (later renumbered AMS-QQ-P-35 and then withdrawn in favor of AMS-2700), another major passivation document.  The ASTM A967/A967-13 replaces ASTM A967/A967M-05 which is now obsolete.

Changes to the new 2013 Edition of A967/A967M can be found in the following areas:  Section 1.5 (changed to combined Metric/US units), Revised Section 4.1 and added Section 4.3, Added Notes 2 and 3 to Sections 6 and 7, Revised Section 13.3, Combined Sections 14 through 19 into a new Section 14, Revised Section 22.1 (Now numbered 17.1) and added Section 17.2, and Added Sections X1.3.2-X1.3.4 and X1.12 to the Appendix.

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Whatever happened to QQ-P-35, Passivation Treatments for Corrosion Resistant Steel?

QQ-P-35, “Passivation Treatments for Corrosion Resistant Steel,” is another government document that was cancelled due to the implementation of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act in the mid-1990’s.  The public law, known as NTTAA, directs Federal Agencies to use technical standards “that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies.”  Since QQ-P-35 was a Federal Specification it was an obvious candidate for replacement with a U.S. industry standard.

QQ-P-35 was originally issued in July 1963.  Revision C from 1988 was withdrawn by Cancellation Notice 3 on 9/11/1998.  The Cancellation Notice specifies that QQ-P-35 can be replaced by both ASTM A967 and AMS QQ-P-35.  This shows the use of two types of replacement documents:  1) a pre-existing standard (ASTM A967) and 2) a standard that is a republication of the withdrawn government to migrate the caretaking of the standard from a government organization to an industry one (AMS QQ-P-35).

The other interesting point about this particular superseding history is that seven years after the AMS republication of the specification, the document (AMS QQ-P-35) was itself cancelled in favor of another AMS standard, AMS 2700.  This actually was possible because of government participation in the committee that writes the AMS 2700 standard.  With the publication of Revision B in February 2004, issues in the previous edition of the document that made it unsuitable for government usage were resolved.  Thus the final migration to an industry standard was made possible.

So now, the current replacements for QQ-P-35 are the ASTM A967, “Standard Specification for Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts,” and AMS 2700, “Passivation of Corrosion Resistant Steels.”

In actuality, the number of government documents that were republished in this way in order to facilitate migration to industry-sponsored standards is relatively small.  It was certainly made possible because the federal level government documentation is not covered by copyright.  And by this time, many of those republications have been revised or withdrawn as well.

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