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Originally Posted by DeadheadNM
Yes. I’ve been meaning to post a review to steer members away from Kaehr. They have gone way downhill. Shipped my parts to a wrong address and these were poorly packaged. Poor quality work. Terrible customer service. Here’s an example of my latest and last batch that Kaehr did and what the same pieces looked like after Arrow redid the pieces. Note how dull and water stained the Kaehr batch is. Can you believe they actually tried to pass this along to me?
Arrow has good service, good prices, and prompt turn around.
Avoid Kaehr Coating in Albuquerque!!
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Pete,
I have quite the cache of materials to send off for zinc plating, black phosphate coating and powder coating. I have been removing parts, documenting and am excited to send them off for the work. I’m pretty well set on the (clear) zinc and powder coating but am still a bit fuzzy on the black phosphate.
The door latches, door catches, tow hooks and other parts you had done look amazing. I’m really curious what process you had done. My understanding is that there is a Black Oxide coating (seen on impact tools frequently) a Black (zinc) Phosphate coating and a Black (zinc) Chromate coating.
The corrosion resistance qualities are:
Black Oxide coating: Good
Black (zinc) Phosphate coating: Very Good
Black (zinc) Chromate coating: excellent
From my research the Black Oxide and Black (zinc) Phosphate coatings are processes where the parts are dipped into a liquid solution.
The Black (zinc) Chromate coating is a secondary dipping process.
I would really like to see samples of the three different processes on parts to be able to see what they look like compared to each other.