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Surface Solutions Inc.
7895 Ranchers Road
Fridley, MN 55432
PVD Hard Coatings to Improve Your Bottom Line!
Be More Productive, Give Us a Call! (888-245-2804)
Phone: 763-785-9436
Fax: 763-785-9447
Email: info@tincoat.net
Setting Up an Account
To get parts coated, just send in a purchase order with all your company information on it (company name, address, phone numbers, contact information, etc.). We will coat your parts and send them back (typically via UPS).
Please provide a UPS account number if you would like the shipping charges billed to that account. Also, please provide an accounts payable email address so we can send a PDF invoice to the appropriate email address.
Lead-times for Coating
Typical coating lead-times are a week, or less, but could be two weeks for large orders and / or orders that require a lot of prep work. In most cases, we batch your parts with others that we are coating. So if you let us know that "hot" jobs are coming, we may be able to schedule our work to shorten your lead-time.
We coat tools from all over the country, including California, New York, Florida and everywhere in-between. For typical UPS transit times between your location and our location, click here.
Masking
Masking a part requires covering that area of the part with metal and / or carbon. This can be very labor intensive and can result in up to a doubling of the coating cost. On the other hand, we have to hold a part somewhere and where the part is held, that area is not coated. So it may be possible to design fixtures to cost-effectively mask the desired areas of a part.
Special Processing
To produce optimum results requires paying close attention to detail and oftentimes extra work. Over the years, we've developed a number of special processes to enhance the value of our services. Some of these special processes include:
- Polishing
- Tumbling
- Nickel plating (performed by outside vendors)
- Stripping
- Texturing
Coating Temperatures
Typical coating temperatures are about 800°F for all of our coatings.
We are capable of coating at lower temperatures (down to 600°F) if it is required by the application. Coating at lower temperatures may have an adverse effect on quality, however.
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