Sold/Expired Exotic Coating Service

A few members have asked me to put together a run since there have been over a 2 years gap since the last one. Unfortunately due to my recent personal activity, I was not able to do so at the moment.

Now that my shop is partially back together, and work have provide a little breather from Euro-travel, I hope to bring offer this service again to bring some nice stocking for this xmas season.

The first run was done here. It took ~ 6 weeks from start to finish.
The last run took about 8 weeks, so there should be no different for this.

The service includes #8 mirror polishing, machine (lathe/mill) work modification, and most important of all the plating/deposition.
The surface coating are available based upon the substrate (based material).

For aluminum/brass/stainless steel/ti basically any metals we can coat them with Nickel, Chrome, Gold, and HAIII.
For harder metal (higher melting point such as stainless steel & titanium we can get to the really hard stuff such as TiN, TiCN, AlTiN, and the "C".


Here is a brief explanation of each coating.
Mil SpecQQ-N-290 Nickel Plating - corrosion resistance, surface hardness 46-50 RC.
Hard Chrome - bright & shinny silver, surface hardness 65-70 RC.
Bright Gold - 24K gold finish, great corrosion resistance (eg, brass or copper substrate).
Splash Anodize - Multi-color Type II anodization.
Ti-Nitride - 14K gold color, low friction, 80+ RC (2500-3000 Vickers).
Ti-Carbo-Nitride - gray/copper color, low friction, 90+ RC (3000-3700 Vickers).
Al-Ti-Nitride - purple/black color, low friction, 90+ RC, 2nd hardest coating available of the list behind diamond.
"C" aka Diamond - can we even afford this? most likely not!
HAIII - well how can you not know about this.


=== Modification Pricing Schedule ===


* Size Decoding
USM - ultra small lights ... single N-cell / CR2
ESM - EDC small lights ... single CR123 / AA
SM - small lights ... 17670 / 18650 / 2xCR123 / 2xAA MiniMag
MC - medium carry ... Mag1C / Mag2C / Mag1D
L - large light ... Mag2D or larger

If you're not sure what size your light is please ask before sending it in.

=== Production Status ===
All lights should be in my hands on 10/23/09 *Deadline have been extended by 1 month to 11/20/09
Estimated start date is the following Monday to the polisher ~2 weeks
Estimated coating time ~3 weeks
Return Shipment ~1-2 weeks


=== Shipping & Delivery ===
US S/H is $6 for first package & $1 for each additional item.
Int'l S/H is $12 for the first package & $5 for each addt'l item.


=== Payment Information ===
No need to pay now, you'll get a final bill before the parts are returned to you.
Cash PayPal: modamag_std[at]yahoo.com
Credit Card PayPal (add 4%): modamag_cc[at]yahoo.com
Subject: GB: Exotic C/M
Note: CPF handle & your order list
Money order (add $0.37): PM me for address

Participants ... Please make a post of
1. what you have sent in.
2. what you want to have done.
3. pictures if possible.
*4. if you absolutely can not disassemble your light, I will do it for a small fee. But if you can I highly recommend it. Everyone should know the inside/out of their favorite toy.


=== Reserved for Updates ===
LuxLuthor
HA22 Mammoth + Delghi 3" head - HA
SF FM 2x18650 - 24K
Jetbeam SS Clone - TiN
Fenix AA - 24K
FM Gold Elephant - 24K
FM 2" Deep - 24K
FM 2D "X" pattern - 24K
FM 2D "scallop" pattern - 24K
Bare Al - 24K
Deep 2C Nickel - 24K
Mag 1D "X" Patern - 24K
3x SS Mag Bezels.



cnjl3
HA22 Mammoth + Delghi 3" head - HA


sunspot
1x Mini-Mag - Chrome
1x Mini-Mag - Nickel

tino_ale
- One Ti Sundrop - AlTiN w/o polishing
- One Ti Mac fob - AlTiN w/o polishing
- Ti mini-skirmish Benchmade knife - AlTiN w/o polishing
- Ti Aleph3 crenelated bezel ring - AlTiN w/o polishing

tx101
- Mag1D - black HA
- Mag1C - black HA


UnderTheWeepingMoon
Download SS Mag Bezel - polish and AlTiN coating
FM Wide Mag Tailcap - polish and AlTiN coating
Ti Ra Clicky clip - polish and AlTiN coating
Ti screws - AlTiN


Winx
- Surefire 6P - gold plate
- Z59, no Z41 - gold plate
- Stainless plain bezel - TiN

X_Marine
- Exolion - TiN

FrogmanM
- S27 Cx2 - AlTiN/polished/disassemble

Royal Oak
1. Leef/Milkyspit Gotham - 24K Gold
2. McGizmo Haiku - TiCN
3. McGizmo LS20 - AlTiN
4. McGizmo LS20 - 24K Gold
5. McGizmo Sundrop - AlTiN
6. Muyshondt Nautilus - AlTiN
7. Data Spy007 - AlTiN/pending Data disassembly

jdriller
2x augers - chromed

tanasit
Spy005 - 24K

QtrHorse

nfetterly

JHanko

Dog Chaser
Ti PD-S - DLC
McClickie Mule - HAIII

This is awesome! Now the hard part: deciding which lights to send off to modamag..........

edit:
Jonathan,

I'll be sending in my LunaSol27-C. I'll be needing a little machining on some areas that were polished/dented prior to my ownership. I'm still debating on the coating, but right now it's between Diamond and AlTiN.

Thanks!
Joel

Darn... I was really hoping to see some reflector coatings in this thread. I am on a mission for rhodium plating.

You wouldn't, by chance, have such a hidden option?? :candle:

I'd like to reserve a Colossus head to be done in HAIII Black.Maybe I've overlooked it, but I don't see HAIII on the price chart.

Confirming order, based upon reply in post #14.

Rhodium plating will only buy you scratch resistance.
It's actually a very poor reflector when compared to aluminum sputtering.

Depending on the purpose of your light, the best three options are

Aluminum - general, most durable and low cost
Silver - highest reflectivity of the visible spectrum
Gold - highest reflectivity of IR spectrum

donn: Opps... copy and paste. HA is an option.

I am also interested in the HA coating prices.

Will you offer HA (gray/ natural) and HA black or just standard HA?

QtrHorse said:

I am also interested in the HA coating prices.

Will you offer HA (gray/ natural) and HA black or just standar HA?

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+1....

I have a few lights that I need to decide on.

I'm gonna drive you nuts with questions!

There are (at least) a couple of FiveMega heads with integral reflectors; the 3.5" TurboHead and the new Version 2 deep reflector.

Can you either:

1. effectively mask the reflectors on these while coating the exteriors, or

2. re-coat the reflectors after plating the exteriors?

I have a light coated in nickel (Mule from Don) can this light be stripped and coated in HA or chrome?? I think that PK rogue is going to get a coating too...hmmmm

Probably a stupid question so please forgive my ignorance. We are supposed to send you our lights disassembled correct? I'm interested in having something AlTiN-coated but am terrified of having to reassemble it 8 weeks after taking it apart and remembering where everything goes.

I'm a little giddy at the moment. I have been waiting for another coating service so I can get some of my Leef lego's to match and get some Mag's coated. I have gathered a collection of FM's parts that don't exactly match all the lights and for them to finally match is going to make me so happy.

brighterisbetter said:

Probably a stupid question so please forgive my ignorance. We are supposed to send you our lights disassembled correct? I'm interested in having something AlTiN-coated but am terrified of having to reassemble it 8 weeks after taking it apart and remembering where everything goes.

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lots of pictures...

donn_: Colossus head will fall btw small/medium price range. There are some machining prep work that needs to be done due to the coating thickness changes.

Integrating reflector is a NO ... NO The risk way too high to recoat these. Normally you would coat first, cut, polish then deposit. It's done that way for a reason (ease).

I recommend you keep those custom as FM originally designed them.

QtrHorse: Only two color HA is available clear/gray and black. Keep in mind that HA color is very much dependent upon the duration of process. So if you have a piece that's black and want me to coat another separately, it will be close but never be 100% match.

Cuso: You can chrome directly over the Nickel. If you go HA route, the acid will eat through the nickel and require polish, recoat, and thread cleanup for conductivity.

brighterisbetter: All too familar question. See the other runs to get a better understanding how the process works. Addendum #4 added just for you

"*4. if you absolutely can not disassemble your light, I will do it for a small fee. But if you can I highly recommend it. Everyone should know the inside/out of their favorite toy.
"

Are you planning on getting a diamond coating price, or just not going to worry with it?

All lights stripping & polishing as required.
McGizmos need disassembly
Surefire/FiveMega are all apart (no glass, switches, etc)

Picture #13 Al lights below in "Audi A4" HA1 light below in Bright Orange HAIIPicture #2 - Misc
2 SS Bezels for surefire "P" series - 1 TiN, 1 AlTiN
5 SS (1 not shown) lanyard rings for surefire P - AlTiN
2 SS McGizmo PD Bezels (Tapered in TiN, Crenelated in AlTiN) - crenelated SS or Al?? if Al - Audi A4 HAIII
1 SS clip for Surefire P (Z59) - AlTiN


Picture #3
McGizmo LS20 (trit removed, but includes LED) - ALTiN
McGizmo C "Pak" for Lunasol (clicky still installed - sorry, could not unscrew clicky - in apt & missing tools!!) - AlTiN
McGizmo Clip & screws - AlTiN
McGizmo Clip (no screws) ALTiN
McGizmo Clip & screws - TiN

AL FM 3P with SF bezel & tail (no switch, glass, o-rings) - Bright Orange HAII




Lights sent priority / insured / DC November 12th


Picture #4
Picked up a Gotham evening of 11/14/09 - it is being shipped directly to you from Royal Oak - I've asked for a note to be included in the package.
Body and tailcap made from 7075-T6 alloy, the finish is electroless nickel. Bezel made from 6AL-4V titanium
Please do strip, polish & "Audi A4 Grey" HAIII on the body & tailcap.
AlTiN on Bezel



Draco doesn't need it after a year on my keychain - good as new!!

Wow very nice.

I may consider have one of my C2 chromed. Jonathan, I assume the Surefire C2 is considered to be small. I have a couple of questions:

1. From the way you've listed, I assume that HA is tougher than chrome. Will the chrome coating chip easily?

2. I assume Chrome is corrosion resistant as well from what I know of it, but I just want to confirm. Thanks.

Is it possible to get solid color Type II anodization (blue)?

What happens to etching with.... say a SS Exolion and Ti Carbo-Nitride coating and would the trit have to be popped out?

Per modamag:

Non-flashlight items are also acceptable!


Definitely going to send a few Atwood and other items in. Rockin, thanks!