Finish & Heat-Treatment Specifications

105 MIL, AMS, ASTM and ISO documents cited on finish and heat-treat drawings — what each one covers, its Type / Class or condition structure with thickness, hardness and tests, its status and successor, the finishes and heat treatments it governs, and the call-out to write. 9 US Government documents are free to download here.

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US military and federal specifications

MIL-, DOD- and FED- documents from the Defense Logistics Agency. US Government works — free to download; most finish drawings in aerospace and defence cite them.

Document	Covers	Status	Applies to	PDF
MIL-A-8625 Anodic Coatings for Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys	Covers six types and two classes of electrolytically formed anodic coatings on aluminum and aluminum alloys for non-architectural applications.	Superseded → MIL-PRF-8625	Anodizing Type II, Boric-Sulfuric Acid Anodizing Type IC, Chromic Acid Anodizing Type I +2	Free PDF
MIL-C-26074 Coatings, Electroless Nickel, Requirements for	Legacy specification for electroless nickel-phosphorus coatings on metal and composite surfaces.	Cancelled → MIL-DTL-32119 and SAE AMS-C-26074; AMS 2404 is a commonly specified successor	—	Free PDF
MIL-DTL-13924 Coating, Inorganic, Black, for Ferrous Metals	Covers inorganic black conversion coatings on carbon steel, low-alloy steel, corrosion-resistant steel, wrought iron, and specified cast irons.	Active	Black Oxide	Free PDF
MIL-DTL-16232 Phosphate Coating, Heavy, Manganese or Zinc Base	Covers heavy manganese-phosphate and zinc-phosphate coatings applied to ferrous metals by immersion.	Active	Manganese Phosphate, Zinc Phosphate	Free PDF
MIL-DTL-5541 Chemical Conversion Coatings on Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys	Covers chemical conversion coatings formed by reaction of qualified materials with aluminum and aluminum-alloy surfaces.	Active	Chemical Conversion Coating	Free PDF
MIL-DTL-81706 Chemical Conversion Materials for Coating Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys	Covers qualified chemical conversion materials used to form coatings on aluminum and aluminum alloys.	Active	Chemical Conversion Coating	Free PDF
MIL-H-6875 Heat Treatment of Steel Raw Materials	Cancelled DoD process specification for the heat treatment of steel raw materials and parts — carbon, low-alloy, martensitic, precipitation-hardening and austenitic corrosion-resistant, and maraging steels — replaced by AMS-H-6875 and then by AMS 2759 with its slash sheets.	Superseded → AMS 2759	Full Anneal, Normalize, Process Anneal +3	Free (DLA)
MIL-PRF-46010 Lubricant, Solid Film, Heat Cured, Corrosion Inhibiting	Establishes performance and qualification requirements for a heat-cured, corrosion-inhibiting solid-film lubricant.	Active	—	Free PDF
MIL-STD-130 Identification Marking of U.S. Military Property	Provides criteria and data content for human-readable and machine-readable identification marking of U.S. military property.	Active	Dot Peen Marking, Electrochemical Etching, Laser Marking +3	Free PDF

SAE AMS aerospace material specifications

The commercial successors to many cancelled MIL specs, maintained by SAE International. Copyrighted; purchased from SAE.

Document	Covers	Status	Applies to	PDF
AMS 2403 Plating, Nickel, General Purpose	Covers engineering requirements for electrodeposition of general-purpose nickel and properties of the deposit.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2404 Plating, Electroless Nickel-Phosphorous	Covers requirements for electroless nickel-phosphorus deposited on various materials.	Active	Electroless Nickel Plating	Purchase
AMS 2406 Plating, Chromium, Hard Deposit	Covers electrodeposited hard chromium plate.	Active	Hard Chrome Plating	Purchase
AMS 2430 Shot Peening	Covers media, equipment, process control, intensity verification, coverage, and quality requirements for shot peening.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2469 Hard Anodic Coating on Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys	Establishes requirements for wear-resistant hard anodic coatings on aluminum and aluminum alloys.	Active	Hard Anodizing Type III, Hard Anodizing Type III With PTFE	Purchase
AMS 2471 Anodic Treatment of Aluminum Alloys, Sulfuric Acid Process, Undyed Coating	Establishes processing and performance requirements for sealed, undyed sulfuric-acid anodic coatings on aluminum alloys.	Active	Anodizing Type II	Purchase
AMS 2472 Anodic Treatment of Aluminum Alloys, Sulfuric Acid Process, Dyed Coatings	Establishes processing and performance requirements for dyed sulfuric-acid anodic coatings on aluminum alloys.	Active	Anodizing Type II	Purchase
AMS 2473 Chemical Film Treatment for Aluminum Alloys, General Purpose Coating	Establishes requirements for general-purpose chemical-film conversion coatings on aluminum alloys.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2474 Chemical Treatment for Aluminum Alloys, Low Electrical Resistance Coating	Establishes requirements for low-electrical-resistance chemical-film coatings on aluminum and aluminum alloys.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2488 Anodic Treatment, Titanium and Titanium Alloys, Solution pH 13 or Higher	Establishes engineering requirements and coating properties for alkaline anodic treatment of titanium and titanium alloys.	Active	Titanium Color Anodizing	Purchase
AMS 2700 Passivation of Corrosion Resistant Steels	Covers processes that remove free iron and other less-noble contaminants from corrosion-resistant steel surfaces.	Active	Citric Acid Passivation, Stainless Steel Passivation	Purchase
AMS 2745 Induction Hardening of Steel Parts	Induction hardening — localized austenitizing by electromagnetic induction followed by quenching and tempering — of carbon, alloy and martensitic stainless steel parts, including process qualification and control of hardened pattern, case depth and surface hardness.	Active	Induction Hardening	Purchase
AMS 2750 Pyrometry	Pyrometric requirements — temperature sensors, instrumentation, thermal-processing equipment, system accuracy tests and temperature uniformity surveys — for equipment used in the heat treatment of metals and other thermal processing.	Active	Anneal to O Temper (Aluminum), Carbonitride, Case Harden (Carburize) +10	Purchase
AMS 2759 Heat Treatment of Steel Parts, General Requirements	General requirements for the heat treatment of carbon, low-alloy, corrosion-resistant, maraging and tool steel parts, applied together with the alloy-specific AMS 2759 slash sheets.	Active	Austemper, Carbonitride, Cryogenic Treatment +10	Purchase
AMS 2759/1 Heat Treatment of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Parts, Minimum Tensile Strength Below 220 ksi (1517 MPa)	Heat treatment of carbon and low-alloy steel parts (1045, 4130, 4140, 4340, 8740 and similar) to minimum tensile strengths below 220 ksi (1517 MPa), including normalizing, annealing, hardening, tempering and stress relief.	Active	Full Anneal, High Temper, Low Temper +4	Purchase
AMS 2759/10 Automated Gaseous Nitriding Controlled by Nitriding Potential	Gas nitriding of steel parts in which the furnace atmosphere is controlled automatically by nitriding potential (KN), with the compound layer and diffusion zone specified as process targets.	Active	Cryogenic Treatment, Gas Nitride, Martemper +1	Purchase
AMS 2759/11 Stress Relief of Steel Parts	Stress relief of carbon, low-alloy, tool, martensitic, precipitation-hardening and austenitic corrosion-resistant steel parts after machining, forming, welding or straightening, without changing the prior heat-treated properties.	Active	Stress Relief	Purchase
AMS 2759/12 Automated Gaseous Nitrocarburizing Controlled by Potentials	Ferritic nitrocarburizing of steel parts in ammonia plus a carbon-bearing gas, with the nitriding potential (KN) and carburizing potential (KC) controlled automatically, including optional post-oxidation.	Active	Nitrocarburize (Ferritic)	Purchase
AMS 2759/2 Heat Treatment of Low-Alloy Steel Parts, Minimum Tensile Strength 220 ksi (1517 MPa) and Higher	Heat treatment of low-alloy steel parts (4340, 300M, D6AC, 4330V, Hy-Tuf and similar) to minimum tensile strengths of 220 ksi (1517 MPa) and higher.	Active	Martemper, Quench & Temper	Purchase
AMS 2759/3 Heat Treatment, Precipitation-Hardening Corrosion-Resistant and Maraging Steel Parts	Solution treating, transformation, precipitation hardening and annealing of precipitation-hardening corrosion-resistant steels (17-4PH, 15-5PH, PH13-8Mo, 17-7PH, PH15-7Mo, AM350/355, Custom 450/455, A-286) and of 18Ni maraging steel parts.	Active	Q+T H1025, Q+T H1075, Q+T H1150 +1	Purchase
AMS 2759/4 Heat Treatment, Austenitic Corrosion-Resistant Steel Parts	Annealing, stabilization annealing and stress relief of austenitic corrosion-resistant steel parts such as 302, 304/304L, 316/316L, 321, 347, 309, 310 and the nitrogen-strengthened 21-6-9 / Nitronic grades.	Active	Solution Anneal	Purchase
AMS 2759/5 Heat Treatment, Martensitic Corrosion-Resistant Steel Parts	Annealing, hardening, tempering and sub-zero treatment of martensitic corrosion-resistant steel parts such as 410, 416, 420, 431, 440A/B/C, 418 (Greek Ascoloy) and 422.	Active	Cryogenic Treatment, Quench & Temper	Purchase
AMS 2759/6 Gas Nitriding and Heat Treatment of Low-Alloy Steel Parts	Gas nitriding of low-alloy steel parts (Nitralloy 135M, 4140, 4340, H11 and similar), including the prior hardening and tempering and the verification of case depth, surface hardness and white layer.	Active	Gas Nitride	Purchase
AMS 2759/7 Carburizing and Heat Treatment of Carburizing Grade Steel Parts	Carburizing (gas, vacuum/low-pressure or pack) and subsequent hardening, sub-zero treatment and tempering of carburizing-grade steel parts such as 9310, 8620, 4320, 3310 and Pyrowear 53.	Active	Case Harden (Carburize)	Purchase
AMS 2759/8 Ion Nitriding	Ion (plasma, glow-discharge) nitriding of steel parts — low-alloy, tool, martensitic and precipitation-hardening stainless and, with sputter activation, austenitic stainless — including pre-treatment, process control and verification of case depth, surface hardness and compound layer.	Active	Plasma (Ion) Nitride	Purchase
AMS 2759/9 Hydrogen Embrittlement Relief (Baking) of Steel Parts	Baking of steel parts to relieve hydrogen absorbed during electroplating, electroless plating, acid pickling, cathodic cleaning, chemical stripping and similar wet processes, keyed to the part's tensile strength or hardness.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2769 Heat Treatment of Parts in a Vacuum	Requirements for heat treating metal parts in vacuum furnaces — leak rate, operating pressure, partial-pressure backfill, gas quenching, cleanliness and surface condition — used together with the alloy-specific AMS heat-treatment specifications.	Active	High Temper, Low Temper, Medium Temper +1	Purchase
AMS 2770 Heat Treatment of Wrought Aluminum Alloy Parts	Solution heat treatment, quenching, natural and artificial ageing, and annealing of wrought aluminum alloy parts (2000 series, 6000 and 7000 series alloys such as 2024, 6061, 7050 and 7075) by the part manufacturer.	Active	Age T6 (Aluminum), Age T651 (Aluminum), Age T73 (Aluminum) +1	Purchase
AMS 2771 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloy Castings	Solution heat treatment, quenching, ageing and annealing of aluminum alloy castings (sand, permanent mold, investment and die castings such as A356.0, A357.0, C355.0, 319.0, 201.0 and 206.0) to the T5, T6, T7 and related tempers.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS 2772 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloy Raw Materials	Heat treatment of wrought aluminum alloy raw material — sheet, plate, extrusions, bar, rod, wire, tubing and forgings — by the producer or reheat treater to the tempers called out in the material specifications.	Active	Anneal to O Temper (Aluminum)	Purchase
AMS 2774 Heat Treatment of Wrought Nickel Alloy and Cobalt Alloy Parts	Solution treatment, stabilisation, precipitation (ageing), annealing and stress relief of wrought nickel-base and cobalt-base alloy parts such as Inconel 718, 625, X-750, Waspaloy, Hastelloy X, René 41, Haynes 25 (L-605) and 188.	Active	Age (Inconel 718), Solution Anneal	Purchase
AMS 2801 Heat Treatment of Titanium Alloy Parts	Stress relief, annealing, solution treatment and ageing of titanium and titanium alloy parts (commercially pure grades, Ti-6Al-4V, Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo, Ti-6Al-6V-2Sn, Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al, Ti-15V-3Cr-3Al-3Sn and others) by the part manufacturer.	Active	Solution Treat + Age (Ti)	Purchase
AMS 5643 Steel, Corrosion-Resistant, Bars, Wire, Forgings, Tubing, and Rings, 16Cr - 4.0Ni - 0.30Cb - 4.0Cu, Solution Heat Treated, Precipitation Hardenable	Material specification for 17-4PH (UNS S17400) corrosion-resistant steel bars, wire, forgings, tubing and rings, supplied solution heat treated (Condition A) and precipitation hardenable by the user to the H900 through H1150M conditions.	Active	Q+T H1025, Q+T H1075, Q+T H1150 +1	Purchase
AMS 5662 Nickel Alloy, Corrosion and Heat-Resistant, Bars, Forgings, and Rings, 52.5Ni - 19Cr - 3.0Mo - 5.1Cb - 0.90Ti - 0.50Al - 18Fe, Consumable Electrode or Vacuum Induction Melted, 1775 °F (968 °C) Solution Heat Treated, Precipitation-Hardenable	Material specification for Inconel 718 (UNS N07718) bars, forgings and rings, consumable-electrode or vacuum-induction melted, supplied solution heat treated at about 1775 °F (968 °C) and precipitation hardenable by the user.	Active	Age (Inconel 718)	Purchase
AMS 5663 Nickel Alloy, Corrosion and Heat-Resistant, Bars, Forgings, and Rings, 52.5Ni - 19Cr - 3.0Mo - 5.1Cb - 0.90Ti - 0.50Al - 18Fe, Consumable Electrode or Vacuum Induction Melted, 1775 °F (968 °C) Solution and Precipitation Heat Treated	Material specification for Inconel 718 (UNS N07718) bars, forgings and rings, consumable-electrode or vacuum-induction melted, solution heat treated at about 1775 °F (968 °C) and precipitation heat treated by the producer.	Active	Age (Inconel 718)	Purchase
AMS-M-3171 Magnesium Alloy, Processes for Pretreatment and Prevention of Corrosion on	Covers apparatus, materials, and processes for increasing corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys and preparing them for organic coating systems.	Active	Magnesium Chemical Conversion Coating	Purchase
AMS-QQ-N-290 Nickel Plating (Electrodeposited)	Covers electrodeposited nickel plating on steel, copper alloys, zinc alloys, and other specified basis metals.	Active	—	Purchase
AMS-QQ-P-416 Plating, Cadmium (Electrodeposited)	Covers electrodeposited cadmium plating, supplementary chromate or phosphate treatments, thickness, corrosion resistance, and hydrogen-embrittlement control.	Active	Cadmium Plating	Purchase
AS9132 Data Matrix Quality Requirements for Parts Marking	Defines aerospace quality and technical requirements for Data Matrix marking on metallic parts by dot peen, laser, and electrochemical etching.	Active	Dot Peen Marking, Laser Marking	Purchase
SAE AMS 2400 Plating, Cadmium	Specifies electrodeposited cadmium plating on metal parts, including thickness classes and supplementary treatment.	Active	Cadmium Plating	Purchase
SAE AMS 2403 Plating, Nickel, General Purpose	Specifies general-purpose electrodeposited nickel and deposit properties for aerospace metal parts.	Active	Electrolytic Nickel Plating	Purchase
SAE AMS 3171 Magnesium Alloy, Processes for Pretreatment and Prevention of Corrosion on	Provides the magnesium-alloy pretreatment and corrosion-prevention requirements published by SAE as AMS-M-3171.	Active	Magnesium Chemical Conversion Coating	Purchase
SAE J423 Methods of Measuring Case Depth	Recommended practice defining total and effective case depth for carburized, carbonitrided, cyanided, nitrided, induction- and flame-hardened steel parts and describing the chemical, mechanical (hardness traverse), visual and metallographic methods for measuring them.	Active	Carbonitride, Case Harden (Carburize), Flame Hardening +3	Purchase

ASTM International standards

Industrial plating, coating and test-method standards used on commercial drawings worldwide. Copyrighted; purchased from ASTM.

Document	Covers	Status	Applies to	PDF
ASTM A1033 Standard Practice for Quantitative Measurement and Reporting of Hypoeutectoid Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Phase Transformations	Standard practice for measuring, by dilatometry, the transformation temperatures and phase-transformation kinetics of hypoeutectoid carbon and low-alloy steels, and for reporting the results (Ac1, Ac3, Ar3, Ar1, Bs, Ms, transformation start and finish).	Active	Austemper, Full Anneal, Martemper +3	Purchase
ASTM A123 Standard Specification for Zinc (Hot-Dip Galvanized) Coatings on Iron and Steel Products	Specifies batch hot-dip galvanized zinc coatings on fabricated and unfabricated iron and steel products.	Active	Hot-Dip Galvanizing	Purchase
ASTM A153 Standard Specification for Zinc Coating (Hot-Dip) on Iron and Steel Hardware	Specifies hot-dip zinc coating on centrifuged or otherwise handled iron and steel hardware.	Active	Hot-Dip Galvanizing	Purchase
ASTM A380 Standard Practice for Cleaning, Descaling, and Passivation of Stainless Steel Parts, Equipment, and Systems	Provides practices for cleaning, descaling, pickling, and passivating stainless-steel parts, equipment, and systems.	Active	Electropolishing, Stainless Steel Passivation, Stainless Steel Pickling	Purchase
ASTM A480 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Flat-Rolled Stainless and Heat-Resisting Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip	Provides general requirements and standard finish designations for flat-rolled stainless and heat-resisting steel plate, sheet, and strip.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM A564 Standard Specification for Hot-Rolled and Cold-Finished Age-Hardening Stainless Steel Bars and Shapes	Specification for hot-rolled and cold-finished age-hardening (precipitation-hardening) stainless steel bars, shapes and forging stock — Types 630 (17-4PH), 631 (17-7PH), 632, 634, 635, 660 (A-286) and the XM grades (XM-12 15-5PH, XM-13 PH13-8Mo, XM-16, XM-25) — including the heat-treat conditions and minimum properties for each.	Active	Q+T H1025, Q+T H1075, Q+T H1150 +1	Purchase
ASTM A967 Standard Specification for Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts	Specifies nitric-acid and citric-acid passivation treatments and verification tests for stainless steel parts.	Active	Citric Acid Passivation, Electropolishing, Stainless Steel Passivation +1	Purchase
ASTM B117 Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus	Defines apparatus and operating conditions for a controlled neutral salt-spray cabinet but does not set coating-specific exposure duration or acceptance limits.	Active	Anodizing Type II, Boric-Sulfuric Acid Anodizing Type IC, Chemical Conversion Coating +6	Purchase
ASTM B177 Standard Guide for Engineering Chromium Electroplating	Provides guidance for depositing functional hard chromium while preserving required substrate and deposit properties.	Active	Hard Chrome Plating	Purchase
ASTM B194 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar	Specification for copper-beryllium alloy (C17000, C17200, C17500, C17510) plate, sheet, strip and rolled bar in solution-annealed, cold-rolled, mill-hardened and age-hardened tempers, with age-hardening capability requirements.	Active	Age C17200 (Beryllium Cu)	Purchase
ASTM B196 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Rod and Bar	Specification for copper-beryllium alloy (C17000, C17200, C17300, C17500, C17510) rod and bar in solution-annealed, cold-drawn, age-hardened and mill-hardened tempers, with age-hardening capability requirements.	Active	Age C17200 (Beryllium Cu)	Purchase
ASTM B456 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Copper Plus Nickel Plus Chromium and Nickel Plus Chromium	Specifies decorative and protective copper-nickel-chromium or nickel-chromium systems on specified metal substrates.	Active	Decorative Nickel-Chrome Plating	Purchase
ASTM B488 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Gold for Engineering Uses	Specifies electrodeposited engineering gold by purity type, Knoop-hardness code, and minimum thickness.	Active	Gold Plating	Purchase
ASTM B545 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Tin	Specifies electrodeposited tin coatings on metallic articles for solderability, contacts, corrosion protection, anti-galling, and nitriding stop-off.	Active	Tin Plating	Purchase
ASTM B571 Standard Practice for Qualitative Adhesion Testing of Metallic Coatings	Provides qualitative methods for evaluating adhesion of metallic coatings to their substrates.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM B633 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Zinc on Iron and Steel	Specifies electrodeposited zinc coatings on iron and steel, including service-condition thickness and supplementary-treatment classifications.	Active	Zinc Plating	Purchase
ASTM B689 Standard Specification for Electroplated Engineering Nickel Coatings	Specifies electrodeposited nickel coatings for functional engineering applications rather than decorative nickel-chromium systems.	Active	Electrolytic Nickel Plating	Purchase
ASTM B700 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Silver for Engineering Use	Specifies electrodeposited engineering silver by purity, appearance, supplementary tarnish treatment, and purchaser-defined thickness.	Active	Silver Plating	Purchase
ASTM B733 Standard Specification for Autocatalytic (Electroless) Nickel-Phosphorus Coatings on Metal	Covers autocatalytic nickel-phosphorus coatings on metals for engineering use, classified by substrate, service condition, phosphorus content, and heat treatment.	Active	Electroless Nickel Plating	Purchase
ASTM B734 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Copper for Engineering Uses	Specifies electrodeposited copper coatings for engineering uses such as underplating, stop-off, EMI shielding, and joining.	Active	Copper Plating	Purchase
ASTM B841 Standard Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Zinc Nickel Alloy Deposits	Specifies electrodeposited zinc-nickel alloy coatings on metals with conversion-coating and thickness designations.	Active	Zinc-Nickel Plating	Purchase
ASTM B850 Standard Guide for Post-Coating Treatments of Steel for Reducing the Risk of Hydrogen Embrittlement	Guides selection of post-coating heat treatments for reducing hydrogen-embrittlement risk in steel parts.	Active	Cadmium Plating, Electrolytic Nickel Plating, Hard Chrome Plating +2	Purchase
ASTM B912 Standard Specification for Passivation of Stainless Steels Using Electropolishing	Specifies passivation of 200-, 300-, and 400-series and precipitation-hardening stainless steels by electropolishing.	Active	Electropolishing	Purchase
ASTM B917 Standard Practice for Heat Treatment of Aluminum-Alloy Castings from All Processes	Standard practice for the solution heat treatment, quenching, ageing and annealing of aluminum-alloy castings produced by any casting process, with recommended temperatures and times per alloy and temper.	Active	Age T6 (Aluminum), Age T651 (Aluminum), Age T73 (Aluminum) +1	Purchase
ASTM B918 Standard Practice for Heat Treatment of Wrought Aluminum Alloys	Standard practice for the solution heat treatment, quenching, precipitation (age) hardening and annealing of wrought aluminum alloys — sheet, plate, extrusions, forgings, bar and machined parts — in the 2000 series, 6000 series and 7000 series.	Active	Age T6 (Aluminum), Age T651 (Aluminum), Age T73 (Aluminum) +1	Purchase
ASTM D1654 Standard Test Method for Evaluation of Painted or Coated Specimens Subjected to Corrosive Environments	Provides procedures and rating scales for evaluating corrosion, undercutting, and coating failure after exposure of painted or coated specimens.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM D2794 Standard Test Method for Resistance of Organic Coatings to the Effects of Rapid Deformation (Impact)	Evaluates cracking or loss of adhesion when an organic coating and metal panel are rapidly deformed by a falling-weight impact.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM D3359 Standard Test Methods for Rating Adhesion by Tape Test	Provides tape-test methods for assessing adhesion of film coatings to metallic substrates by cut-and-peel examination.	Active	Hot Stamping, Ink Stamping, Pad Printing +1	Purchase
ASTM D3363 Standard Test Method for Film Hardness by Pencil Test	Determines organic coating film hardness by pushing prepared drawing leads of graded hardness across the surface.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM D522 Standard Test Methods for Mandrel Bend Test of Attached Organic Coatings	Evaluates flexibility and resistance to cracking of attached organic coatings when a coated panel is bent over cylindrical or conical mandrels.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM D523 Standard Test Method for Specular Gloss	Measures specular gloss of nonmetallic surfaces using 20-degree, 60-degree, or 85-degree geometries.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM D7091 Standard Practice for Nondestructive Measurement of Dry Film Thickness of Nonmagnetic Coatings Applied to Ferrous Metals and Nonmagnetic, Nonconductive Coatings Applied to Non-Ferrous Metals	Describes nondestructive magnetic and eddy-current gauge measurement of dry coating thickness on ferrous and non-ferrous metal substrates.	Active	—	Purchase
ASTM E10 Standard Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials	Test method for Brinell hardness of metallic materials — 10, 5, 2.5 and 1 mm tungsten-carbide ball indenters, test forces from 1 to 3000 kgf, procedure, minimum thickness and verification.	Active	Anneal to O Temper (Aluminum), Austemper, Full Anneal +6	Purchase
ASTM E140 Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals Relationship Among Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell Hardness, Superficial Hardness, Knoop Hardness, Scleroscope Hardness, and Leeb Hardness	Standard hardness conversion tables relating Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell, Rockwell superficial, Knoop, Scleroscope and Leeb hardness for non-austenitic steel, austenitic stainless steel, nickel and high-nickel alloys, cartridge brass, copper, alloyed white iron and wrought aluminum products.	Active	Gas Nitride, High Temper, Induction Hardening +3	Purchase
ASTM E18 Standard Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials	Test methods for Rockwell and Rockwell superficial hardness of metallic materials — indenters, test forces, procedure, scale designations, and verification of testing machines and reference test blocks.	Active	Age (Inconel 718), Age C17200 (Beryllium Cu), Age T6 (Aluminum) +19	Purchase
ASTM E384 Standard Test Method for Microindentation Hardness of Materials	Test method for Knoop and Vickers microindentation hardness of materials with test forces from 1 gf to 1 kgf (9.8 mN to 9.8 N), including specimen preparation, indentation measurement, spacing and verification.	Active	Age C17200 (Beryllium Cu), Carbonitride, Case Harden (Carburize) +6	Purchase
ASTM F1136 Standard Specification for Zinc/Aluminum Corrosion Protective Coatings for Fasteners	Formerly specified water-based zinc/aluminum dispersion coatings and optional sealers or topcoats for ferrous fasteners.	Withdrawn → ASTM F3393	Zinc-Flake Dip-Spin Coating	Purchase
ASTM F2252 Standard Practice for Evaluating Ink or Coating Adhesion to Flexible Packaging Materials Using Tape	Describes a tape procedure for evaluating ink or coating adhesion on flexible packaging materials; notes: it is not specifically an in-mold-label or pressure-sensitive-label adhesion standard.	Withdrawn	In-Mold Labeling (IML)	Purchase
ASTM F3055 Standard Specification for Additive Manufacturing Nickel Alloy (UNS N07718) with Powder Bed Fusion	Specification for additively manufactured Inconel 718 (UNS N07718) parts made by powder bed fusion, covering feedstock, build, thermal post-processing classes, chemistry, mechanical properties and inspection.	Active	Hot Isostatic Press (HIP), Solution Treat + Age (Ti)	Purchase
ASTM F3301 Standard for Additive Manufacturing—Post Processing Methods—Standard Specification for Thermal Post-Processing Metal Parts Made Via Powder Bed Fusion	Specification for thermal post-processing (stress relief, annealing, solution treatment, ageing and hot isostatic pressing) of metal parts made by powder bed fusion, covering process control, equipment, documentation and verification.	Active	Hot Isostatic Press (HIP), Solution Treat + Age (Ti)	Purchase

ISO standards

International equivalents used on European and Asian drawings. Copyrighted; purchased from ISO or a national body.

Document	Covers	Status	Applies to	PDF
ISO 10074 Anodizing of Aluminium and Its Alloys — Specification for Hard Anodic Oxidation Coatings on Aluminium and Its Alloys	Specifies requirements and test methods for hard anodic oxidation coatings on wrought and cast aluminum alloys, excluding plasma-electrolytic processes.	Active	Hard Anodizing Type III	Purchase
ISO 10683 Fasteners — Non-Electrolytically Applied Zinc Flake Coating Systems	Specifies non-electrolytically applied zinc-flake systems for threaded and non-threaded steel fasteners.	Active	Zinc-Flake Dip-Spin Coating	Purchase
ISO 15415 Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques — Bar Code Symbol Print Quality Test Specification — Two-Dimensional Symbols	Defines measurement and continuous quality grading for printed two-dimensional matrix and multi-row barcode symbols.	Active	Dot Peen Marking, In-Mold Labeling (IML), Laser Marking	Purchase
ISO 15416 Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques — Bar Code Symbol Print Quality Test Specification — Linear Symbols	Defines measurement and continuous quality grading of linear barcode symbols read by linear scanning methods.	Active	In-Mold Labeling (IML), Laser Marking	Purchase
ISO 15787 Technical product documentation — Heat-treated ferrous parts — Presentation and indications	Rules for presenting heat-treated ferrous parts on technical drawings — how to indicate the heat-treatment condition, hardness with tolerance, hardening depth (CHD, SHD, NHD) and the extent of locally hardened zones.	Active	Gas Nitride, Nitrocarburize (Ferritic), Plasma (Ion) Nitride	Purchase
ISO 2409 Paints and Varnishes — Cross-Cut Test	Specifies a cross-cut procedure and 0-to-5 classification for resistance of paint coatings to separation from a substrate or underlying coat.	Active	Ink Stamping, Pad Printing, Screen Printing	Purchase
ISO 2639 Steels — Determination and verification of the depth of carburized and hardened cases	Method for determining the case hardening depth (CHD) of carburized or carbonitrided and hardened steel parts by a Vickers hardness traverse, and a simplified method for verifying a specified CHD in production.	Active	Carbonitride, Case Harden (Carburize)	Purchase
ISO 683-1 Heat-treatable steels, alloy steels and free-cutting steels — Part 1: Non-alloy steels for quenching and tempering	Technical delivery requirements for non-alloy steels for quenching and tempering (C22 to C60 with their E and R variants, 28Mn6) supplied as bar, rod, wire rod, flat products and forgings in the untreated, treated-for-shearability, annealed, normalized or quenched-and-tempered condition.	Active	Austemper, Full Anneal, Martemper +2	Purchase
ISO 683-2 Heat-treatable steels, alloy steels and free-cutting steels — Part 2: Alloy steels for quenching and tempering	Technical delivery requirements for alloy steels for quenching and tempering (Cr, Cr-Mo, Cr-Ni-Mo, Cr-V, Mn-B and Ni-Cr-Mo grades such as 41Cr4, 25CrMo4, 42CrMo4, 34CrNiMo6, 30CrNiMo8, 51CrV4) as bar, rod, flat products and forgings.	Active	Austemper, Full Anneal, Normalize +1	Purchase
ISO 683-3 Heat-treatable steels, alloy steels and free-cutting steels — Part 3: Case-hardening steels	Technical delivery requirements for case-hardening steels (C10E–C16E, 17Cr3, 16MnCr5, 20MnCr5, 18CrMo4, 20MoCr4, 16NiCr4, 18CrNiMo7-6, 17NiCrMo6-4, 20NiCrMo2-2 and others) as bar, rod, wire rod, flat products and forgings.	Active	Case Harden (Carburize), Full Anneal, Martemper +1	Purchase
ISO 7599 Anodizing of Aluminium and Its Alloys — Method for Specifying Decorative and Protective Anodic Oxidation Coatings on Aluminium	Defines how to specify decorative and protective anodic oxidation coatings on aluminum, including nominal thickness classes and appearance and performance requirements.	Active	Anodizing Type II	Purchase
ISO 8501-1 Preparation of Steel Substrates Before Application of Paints and Related Products — Visual Assessment of Surface Cleanliness — Part 1	Defines rust grades and visual preparation grades for uncoated steel and steel after complete removal of previous coatings.	Active	—	Purchase
ISO 9227 Corrosion Tests in Artificial Atmospheres — Salt Spray Tests	Defines neutral, acetic-acid, and copper-accelerated acetic-acid salt-spray test atmospheres for corrosion testing.	Active	—	Purchase

Finish specifications — frequently asked

Are MIL specifications free?

Yes. Documents issued by the US Department of Defense (MIL-, DOD-, MIL-STD-, FED-STD-) are US Government works in the public domain. The official source is the DLA ASSIST Quick Search; FabDigit mirrors the current revision of the finish-related ones here for convenience. SAE AMS, ASTM and ISO standards are copyrighted and must be bought from their publishers — the pages here explain their structure so the drawing can be read, but do not reproduce them.

What is the difference between MIL-C-5541 and MIL-DTL-5541?

They are the same document. In the late 1990s the DoD renamed many MIL-C (coating) and MIL-P (plating) specifications to MIL-DTL (detail specification) or MIL-PRF (performance specification) as part of acquisition reform; the technical content carried over into the next revision. A drawing that says MIL-C-5541 is satisfied by the current MIL-DTL-5541.

A MIL spec is cancelled — what do I put on the drawing?

Use the superseding document named in the cancellation notice, usually a SAE AMS or ASTM standard: MIL-C-26074 electroless nickel → AMS 2404 / ASTM B733; QQ-P-416 cadmium → AMS-QQ-P-416; QQ-N-290 nickel → AMS-QQ-N-290; MIL-P-23377 primer → MIL-PRF-23377 (still active). Each specification page here shows its status and successor.

What do Type and Class mean on a finish specification?

Type usually selects the chemistry or process variant (MIL-A-8625 Type II = sulfuric anodize, Type III = hard anodize; MIL-DTL-5541 Type I = hexavalent chromate, Type II = chromium-free), while Class selects the performance level or an option such as dye or thickness (MIL-A-8625 Class 1 = undyed, Class 2 = dyed; ASTM B633 SC1–SC4 = 5–25 µm thickness service conditions). Grade, Form and Method appear in some documents for finer choices. The Type / Class table on each page lists what every combination requires.