NACE CIP Level 1 Standards (2022/2023)
Graded A+
ASTM D3276 ✔✔Standard Guide for Painting Inspectors. States that the minimum surface
temperature for coating is usually 40F, max is 125F.
ISO 8501 St3 ✔✔Very Thorough
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NACE CIP Level 1 Standards (2022/2023)
Graded A+
ASTM D3276 ✔✔Standard Guide for Painting Inspectors. States that the minimum surface
temperature for coating is usually 40F, max is 125F.
ISO 8501 St3 ✔✔Very Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning. Same as for St2, but the
surface shall be treated much more thoroughly to give a metallic sheen arising from the metallic
substrate.
NACE 4 (SSPC-SP7) ✔✔Brush off Cleaning. Same cleanliness as NACE 1 (SSPC-SP5) and
tightly adherent mill scale, rust, and coating may remain on the surface.
SSPC-SP3 ✔✔Power Tool Cleaning
ISO 8501 Sa 2.5 ✔✔Very Thorough Blast Cleaning
NACE 8 (SSPC-SP 14) ✔✔Industrial Blast Cleaning. Lightly adherent mill scale, rust, and
coating residue are permitted to remain on 10% of each unit area of the surface.
NACE 8 (SSPC-SP 14) Lightly adherent mill scale, rust, and coating residue are permitted to
remain on ____ of each unit area of the surface. ✔✔10
SSPC-VIS 3 ✔✔Visual Guide for Rust Grades. Rust Grades A-D (A is the worse)
SSPC SP-1 ✔✔Solvent Pre Cleaning
ISO 8501 Sa3 ✔✔Blast Cleaning to Visually Clean Steel.
Surfaced shall be free from oil, grease, dust, dirt, free from the mill scale, rust, paint coatings,
and other foreign matter. ✔✔ISO 8501 Sa3
ISO 8501 Sa1 ✔✔Light Blast Cleaning
NACE 2 (SSPC-SP10) ✔✔Near-White Metal Blast Cleaning
When viewed the surface shall be free from oil, grease, dust, dirt, mill scale, rust, coating,
oxides, corrosion products, and other foreign matter. Random staining shall be limited to no
more than 5% of each unit area of surface. ✔✔NACE 2 (SSPC-SP 10)
SSPC-SP2 ✔✔Hand Tool Cleaning
__________ removes all loose mill scale, loose rust, loose paint, and other loose detrimental
foreign matter. It is not intended that adherent mill scale, rust, and paint be removed by this
process. Mill scale, rust and paint considered adherent if they cannot be removed by lifting a dull
putty knife. ✔✔SSPC-SP2
SSPC-SP15 ✔✔Commercial Grade Power Tool Cleaning
A _______ cleaned surface, when viewed without magnification, shall be free from visiable oil,
grease, dirt, coating, oxides, mill scale, corrosion products, and other foreign matter. ✔✔SSCPSP15
Staining shall be no more than 33% of each unit area of surface. ✔✔Commercial Grade Power
Tool Cleaning
NACE 3 (SSPC-SP6) ✔✔Commercial Blast Cleaning
SSPC-SP11 ✔✔Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal
NACE 1 (SSPC-SP 5) ✔✔White Metal Blast Cleaning
ISO 8501 St2 ✔✔Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning
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