ee Revo 17. 18. LIQUID PENETRANT METHOD Lesson 1 Page 8 Quiz 1 Nonmetallic inclusions and porosity in the steel ingot are commonly found using liquid penetrant inspection techniques. ‘Type II penetrants, according to our test, are those containing a fluorescent dye. Because of the capillary action of penetrants, this process of inspection ‘works well on parts with very porous surfaces When doing a liquid penetrant test. the configuration of the specimen has lite effect on the effectiveness of the test. Liquid penetrant inspection can be used only metals such as aluminium and steel. The penetrant Inspection method is used only on the finished product ll and whiting are the names of the two men who invented the penetrant test method. The first important step in penetrant testing is surface preparation. One of the most common contaminants in the penetrant method Is water. The most common method of surface preparation testing is sandblasting. Chemical etching is sometimes used to remove smeared metal from a surface to open discontinuities. Some subsurface defects can be located with the highly sensitive type II Penetrants Blow holes and gas porosity may be detected with the penetrant method. Solvent cleaning is a common method of surface cleaning parts before penetrant testing. The one major limitation to penetrant testing is that the part must be metallic Grease and rust would usually be considered a contaminant on the surface of a test piece. To locate a defect with penetrant testing, the defect must be open to the surface. Tt is considered advantageous for a liquid penetrant material to have low tension and high capillarity.