American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Current edition approved Nov. 15, 2007. Published December 2007. Originally approved in 1983. Last previous edition approved in 2003 as F 812/F 812M – 03. 5 p. This specification establishes allowable limits for the various types of surface discontinuities that may occur during the manufacture and processing of metric-series nuts with nominal diameters 5 mm and larger and inch-series nuts with nominal diameters 1⁄4 in. and larger.