DEFSTAN 03-28(PT2)/3(2005) : 2005

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Warning
3 Normative References
4 Definitions
   4.2 Design Authority
   4.3 Process Control Schedule
   4.4 Significant Surface
5 Information to be Supplied by the Processor
6 Process Control
7 Preparation for Coating
8 Physical Preparation
   8.1 Cold Working
   8.2 Heat Treatment
   8.3 Surface Condition
   8.4 Cleaning
9 Process Requirements
   9.2 Equipment
   9.3 Substrate conditioning
   9.4 Cadmium coating
10 Coating Requirements
11 Supplementary Treatments
   11.2 Treatment with glass beads
   11.3 Chromate conversion coating
   11.4 Organic coatings
12 Process Control
13 Inspection
14 Provision of Test Samples
15 Testing for Composition of Cadmium Source Material
16 Thickness Testing
17 Adhesion
18 Salt Spray Test
19 Testing for Composition of the Coating
20 Treatments of Items Rejected During Final Inspection
   and Test
Annex A - Corrosion Resistance of Chromate Conversion
          Coatings Exposed to a Salt Fog Environment
Annex B - Metallographic Sectioning Method for the
          Determination of Local Coating Thickness
   B.1 Mounting and Preparation of Sections
   B.2 Measurement of the Thickness of the Coating
Annex C - Determination of Average Thickness of Cadmium Coating

Covers the requirements for the deposition of cadmium coatings on carbon steel, low alloy steels, high strength steels, corrosion resisting steels and other materials where appropriate.