Casting Impregnation
Towards an effective quality control standard
Casting Impregnation – About this Website
This website is about using vacuum impregnation to seal porosity in metal castings, powder metal parts, composites and other such materials. It is intended that it will be added to over a period of time, and you are invited to respond on the subject, using the Contact page.
This site is non-profit-making and is donated to the metal casting impregnation industry by Peter Young, whose life's work in this industry spans from 1949 to the present time.
Celebrating 50 years in casting impregnation 1949 – 1999 Peter D Young
All information provided herein is offered in good faith and without warranty.
For information about Peter Young's background in the business, see the Background page.
The Established Quality Standard is Dying
As a result of financial restraints, the US MIL-I-17563C covering the Quality Control of impregnation of porous metal components will not be updated. This places an even greater importance that the impregnation industry, both suppliers of Sealant and Equipment, Users and OEMs take the opportunity to build on the US Military foundation, a Quality Control Audit that embraces today's needs.
A New International Standard for Impregnation
Peter Young seeks to institute a basis on which the excellence of impregnation technology can be enhanced. Its mandate is one of impartiality and transparency.
The focus is to create an International Specification for Quality, into which all participating parties have a responsible part to play. The impregnation Industry has come a long way in the last 30 years and has established a professional standing in industry but it remains fractured with many individual standards.
With this website, the Institute attempts to address some of these issues and place before you a set of rules by which a new standard can be established.
Peter's Wishes for Retirement
Although Peter retired from active involvement in component impregnation in the late 1990s and has now no commercial ties with his old company, he still maintains an interest in future technology.
His burning desire is to see the industry with an effective and usable international quality control standard that will assist both user and supplier alike. To see an excellence in casting impregnation and guiding users on how to get the best from their impregnation equipment.
Impregnation of Other Objects
Peter Young has not been idle in his retirement, and has developed specialist impregnants for other materials.
For details of X-Seal 120, an impregnant and adhesive with many applicaions, visit www.x-seal.com.