On Jun 4, 10:21*pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jun 4, 7:40 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:22:04 -0400, HK wrote:

Setting the price? Call others who do it, and find out what they charge.
My Shimano "gold reels" are small - the 200 series - and only one needs
to be refinished at the moment. I don't recall what I paid for it when
new, maybe $150? It works fine, has a small dent in the case, but isn't
as "purty" as it used to be. I'd pay at least $25 plus shipping if the
coating were durable.
Always thought battle scars give gear some character.
As long as operation isn't affected.

--Vic

If that's the case my motorcycle has wicked character *Hey, I didn't
fall today...

Sober, eh?

Eisboch:
Yes, I am interested in a small sputter system. Right now, to do e-
beam evap costs me at least $100 just to open the chamber cuz I dont
own it.
I have all the parts for a large sputter system except the vac pumps
and targets. I have thickness monitors, gas flow controls, chamber,
RF supplies but putting it together is sorta involved and would
involve employees. A smaller assembled system would be nice.
Right now I could actually coat it with real gold for cheaper than
TiN. I have two old electron microscope sputter systems I have
modified to do weird things but they are of too low power to do
anything except precioius metals with high sputter yield.

Business plan is basically to start very small while living offa
current patent royalties. Get more experience doing this in weird
environments before looking into offshore oil market.
One possibility might be to use electroless nickel to recondition
diesel injector pumps to bring their bore back to spec. Electroless
Ni is nice cuz it plates uniformly down into small spaces whereas
electrolytic Ni has trouble getting into deep bores.
My employees new business of making pistol grips is suddenly doing
very well. Not only are they doing grips for the 1911 models but for
the Sig Hauer (spelling) guns that is much more complicated. THEN,
they just picked up a contract to make some sorta scope mount for some
type of guns. So, they will do well. This utilizes the CNC mill and
the rest of the shop and makes em all business owners (the poor
*******s).