Yes, im going to start a new thread about certifying soon. They grind off the re enforcement on the top of the plate and the bottom, cut a coupon and do a face bend and root bend, to see if the first pass was good and then to test if the cover passes were good. It breaks it fails, if it has little spots that open a little, it might pass, if they are under 1/32 and the whole sum of all those are under 3/8s, for d1.1
