OC-ALCI21-143 governs the identification, chemical analysis, marking, storage, and handling of welding material at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.
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The instruction covers welding wire and welding rod receipt checks, sample submission, laboratory reporting, storage, and color coding. It requires material markings, chemical analysis for identification, segregation of non-conforming material, and disposal of unknown material within 30 days.
Applies to: This instruction applies to the 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group (76 AMXG), the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group (76 PMXG), the 76th Commodities Maintenance Group (76 CMXG), and 76 MXSS/MXDTA.
Each welding wire spool must be permanently and legibly marked on the outer face of one or both flanges with no less than the following information: Alloy name, specification number, size, quantity or weight, heat number (if applicable), manufacturer’s identification, and EESOH-MIS label.
Welding rods will be suitably packaged to ensure against damage during shipment and be legibly marked to be visible from the outside of each unit package with no less than the following information: specification number, manufacturer’s identification, size/weight, and lot, control, or heat number.
If new lots of welding wire and rod are received as not conforming to this requirement, then the entire lot must be marked as non-conforming, segregated, and returned to the supplier.
Unknown material will be marked with the date it is placed in unknown material area and must be properly disposed of within 30 days.
Individual cut lengths of bare welding wire must be: Marked using color bands per Aerospace Material Specification (AMS) 2819C, Identification, Welding Wire Direct Color Code System; tab marked per AMS 2816W, Identification Welding Wire, Tab Marking Method; or permanently marked per Aerospace Standard (AS) 478S, Identification Marking Methods.