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Looking for mil spec, Mil-C-5541

I am trying to find a copy of MIL-C-5541. Could any one help me?

Jerry Smith
Memorial university St.Johns NF. Canada
1999

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This specification is for chromate conversion coating of aluminum. Some people call it Iriditing or Alodining, which are two trade names for the conversion coating chemicals. We've hotlinked your request to a source. Good luck.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
1999

Why use your credit card when you can download the spec for free! MIL and federal specs among others can be downloaded for free from a US government site, http://astimage.daps.dla.mil . You have to register in order to receive an account no. and password, but after a few days you are set up to download PDF files.

Aryeh Asher
- Israel
1999

Ed. note: Strike-thrus on this page are information that no longer works / is no longer current.

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No wonder American small business finds it hard to compete. Our government taxes our own small businesses to provide our off-shore competition with free tools to make sure their costs are lower than ours.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

Mil Specs can also be downloaded for free at http://www.dtic.mil/stinet/str/dodiss4_fields.html . Good luck!

Richard Toms
- Valdosta, Georgia
1999

Ed. note: Strike-thrus on this page are information that no longer works / is no longer current.

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Ted, we also tried those URLs and failed to download any Mil spec. Can you please recheck it as we here tried from three different computers. Maybe after it was recommended at finishing.com everybody tried to download free Mil specs and they decided to put an end to it...-):

Sara Michaeli
Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Israel
1999

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Hi, Sara. You needn't worry about beltway bandit welfare programs coming to an end! The bandits make big campaign donations, then the politicians reward them with grants so they can make bigger donations. It's a neat little closed system. I'd guess that the reason the address keeps changing is because the government is carpet bombing the grant mills with so much money they just can't keep up with it :-)

But it has proven impractical to keep ever-changing addresses current when scattered across 60,000 threads here, so we've put the working address at a central place, our FAQs page, and we are keeping it current there.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

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A MIL-C-5541 Rev E can be downloaded directly from http://www.everyspec.com

The direct link to download the file is found below

http://www.everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL+SPECS+(MIL-C)/download.php?spec=MIL-C-5541E.002379.pdf

Regards,

Jim Kern
EverySpec - Alexandria, Virginia
December 4, 2008