The document provides specifications for acceptable surface defects on metal parts to be painted for Airbus Industrie, defining scratches, bulges, dents and impacts, and outlining methods for evaluating and repairing defects within certain size limits without needing concession.
The document provides specifications for acceptable surface defects on metal parts to be painted for Airbus Industrie, defining scratches, bulges, dents and impacts, and outlining methods for evaluating and repairing defects within certain size limits without needing concession.
The document provides specifications for acceptable surface defects on metal parts to be painted for Airbus Industrie, defining scratches, bulges, dents and impacts, and outlining methods for evaluating and repairing defects within certain size limits without needing concession.
The document provides specifications for acceptable surface defects on metal parts to be painted for Airbus Industrie, defining scratches, bulges, dents and impacts, and outlining methods for evaluating and repairing defects within certain size limits without needing concession.
This Document shall not be used as a basis for manufacture and supply of original and replacement parts to AIRBUS INDUSTRIE unless specifically required in a contract or purchase agreement .
This specification defines the conditions for the acceptance or refusal
of accidental surface damage which can occur on the various metal parts of an aircraft either during manufacture or after delivery to customer .
The process is applicable to :
Painted surfaces .
Surfaces which are not yet painted but will be painted .
1 .2 Limitations of use
This process is not applicable to defects on :
Pipes .
Bores (see tolerances on drawings) .
- Raw materials in the as-delivered condition .
This specifications deals with minor defects . For this reason, repair procedures are described in a practical way .
Any defect larger than those described in this specification must be
treated on a case-by-case basis, taking account of :
The component affected .
The extent of the damage .
Its position on the component affected .
1 .3 Health and safety statement
This specification does not necessarily detail the precautions necessary
to meet the requirements of health and safety .
It is the responsibility of the user of this specification to consult
and establish appropriate health and safety precautions and the method should be operated only by trained personnel .
All operations described in this para . must mandatorily be carried out
by hand .
Scratches are blended-out as follows :
a) Burrs must be physically removed but not turned back into the scratch .
Turning the material back into the scratch is acceptable only on
clad sheets and provided that the scratch has not perforated the cladding .
If the cladding has been perforated, make the following tests :
- Dab tests (clad light alloy sheets)
To check whether a score or impact has perforated the cladding, or
if the cladding has been broken during repair, carry out a dab test using one of the following solutions :
Solution A
Etching : 10 ml of 40% hydrofluoric acid in 90 ml of distilled
water .
Neutralization : 15 grams of sodium carbonate in 1 liter of
distilled water .
Solution B
Etching : 20% caustic soda .
Neutralization : 5% chromic acid .
These solutions must be prepared by the Local Inspection
Laboratory .
Liquid penetrant test
A liquid penetrant crack test shall carried out in any doubtful
cases .
Subsequently touching up with a protective treatment by chromating by
brush according PMS 01-02-05 and paint (primer or primer and topcoat) shall be carried out in accordance with written procedures that have been approved by the Design Authority .
b) The scratch can be blended out by rubbing with grade 400 adhesive paper and finishing with an abrasive rubber, aluminum wool or by polishing, depening on the finish required .
The width of the blended area shall not exceed approximatly 200 times the measured depth of the scratch .
NOTE : Burnishing is formally forbidden (except on clad sheets, as
described in para . a) above) . The use of any machine which could heat the metal is also forbidden .
Titanium must be blended with abrasive paper wetted with water or
white spirit .
5 .2 Bulges and dents
Painted surfaces (or surfaces to be painted) .
These defects should be repaired only if they jeopardize the external
appearance of the part .
The following repair methods may be used :
a) The metal may be smoothed or rubbed back into shape .
b) The metal may be restored to the correct shape using soft faced mallets which do not mark the surface .
c) Dents may be filled with an approved filler and the paint finish restored in accordance with approved written procedures .
5 .3 Impacts
Before any repair, carry out a crack test in accordance with an approved written procedure on both faces of the component involved, at the point where the object has penetrated into the metal .
The defect may be blended out using the processes described for blending out of scratches .
Bulges and dents associated with penetration of the metal may be
repaired only after the penetration has been repaired as described above . The repairs are to be made in accordance with the requirements, above, for repair of simple bulges and dents, or touching up of a protective treatment in accordance with written procedures that have been previously approved by the Design Authority .
After repairing a bulge or dent in an unpainted surface that has also
suffered penetration of the surface, both sides of the metal in the repair area are to be subjected to dye penetrant examination .
6. REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
PMS 01-02-05 Chromating of aluminum and aluminum alloys
