1StandardPracticeDevelopedandApprovedbytheManufacturersStandardizationSocietyoftheValveandFittingsIndustry,Inc.127PartStreet,NEVienna,Virginia22180(703)281-6613QualityStandardforSteelCastingsandForgingsforValves,Flanges,andFittingsandOtherPipingComponentsMSSMSSSP-53-1999Reaffirmed2002MagneticParticleExaminationMethodCOPYRIGHTManufacturersStandardizationSocietyoftheValveandFittingsLicensedbyInformationHandlingServicesCOPYRIGHTManufacturersStandardizationSocietyoftheValveandFittingsLicensedbyInformationHandlingServicesMSSSTANDARDPRACTICESP-53iAnMSSStandardPracticeisintendedasabasisforcommonpracticebythemanufacturer,theuser,andthegeneralpublic.TheexistenceofanMSSStandardPracticedoesnotinitselfprecludethemanufacture,sale,oruseofproductsnotconformingtotheStandardPractice.Mandatoryconformanceisestablishedonlybyreferenceinacode,specification,salescontract,orpubliclaw,asapplicable.UnlessotherwisespecificallynotedinthisMSSSP,anystandardreferredtohereinisidentifiedbythedateofissuethatwasapplicabletothereferencedstandard(s)atthedateofissueofthisMSSSP.(SeeAnnexA.)InthisStandardPracticeallnotes,annexes,tables,andfiguresareconstruedtobeessentialtotheunderstandingofthemessageofthestandard,andareconsideredpartofthetextunlessnotedas"supplemental".Allappendicesappearinginthisdocumentareconstruedas"supplemental"."Supplemental"informationdoesnotincludemandatoryrequirements.U.S.customaryunitsinthisSParethestandard;themetricunitsareforreferenceonly.Substantivechangesinthis1999editionare"flagged"byparallelbarsasshownonthemarginsofthisparagraph.Thespecificdetailofthechangemaybedeterminedbycomparingthematerialflaggedwiththatinthepreviousedition.Non-tolerancedDimensionsinthisStandardPracticearenominal,and,unlessotherwisespecified,shallbeconsidered"forreferenceonly."Anypartofthisstandardmaybequoted.Creditlinesshouldread'extractedfromMSSSP-53,1999,withpermissionofthepublisher,theManufacturersStandardizationSociety.'Reproductionprohibitedundercopyrightconventionunlesswrittenpermissionisgrant...