Vacuum coatings as a way to improve durability

Coating for all your vehicle parts

Whether you're a hobbyist or a professional builder of bikes, trikes and other sporty vehicles, the best part about the designing process is getting yourself a custom paint job. For the ultimate in durable and beautiful but above all thin coating there is nothing that can beat vacuum coating. Instead of relying on paints and airbrush systems that can be tricky and have the risk of chipping the paint unless you're having it done by a (high paid) professional who layers on 5 ultra thin coats of paint, you can have the machines set to the finest details and layer on just one ultra thin layer that is more durable than anything your professional airbrush artist can. There's just no comparison.

What thin coatings make possible

Imagin being able to create a coat as thin as a few molecules and using it in aerospace technology. You could significantly reduce the amount of paint needed on an airplane which reduces the weight dramatically. On a jumbo-jet this would save on fuel expenditure, but in sleek fighter jets it could mean the difference between life and death as the lighter the plane, the more possibilities, the easier turns will be.

Refurbishing guns can really create a super fine coat that is resistant to the heat and other specifications that go with guns and gunpowder. A very specialized job that requires the utmost of care.

In aeronautics it could eventually mean space becomes more accessible to us. In lifting a spaceship out of our gravitational field every ounce counts.

In automotives it could help save energy in the same way, but the application can be used to lay a coating on the windows helping prevent being blinded by a low hanging sun, or even, in the future, garnering solar energy to feed the cars electrical systems.

Less use of materials, in particular the solvents that are so damaging to our environment that are generally used in the classic paintjob means we are doing less harm to our planet. As such it's a great way of caring for our environment as well. As you can tell, I'm a big fan of vacuum coating.

The process of vacuum coating

You can choose all dimensions of the coating, ranging from thickness, complexity to color and shinyness. You can have a metalized coating or just layer of several molecules thickness of your favorite coloring agent. The possibilities are endless.

It's not just vehicles that you can customize in this manner. You can apply the coating on virtually any object. A great gift item is a metalized babyshoe. Art objects can be coated top to bottom to create a really shiny finish that can add to beauty of the object you've given shape. Another area where these coatings can be instrumental is the finish of medical equipment which needs to be strong, easy to clean and durable.

Buying coating equipment

Another option, if you're in manufacturing is to buy the coating equipment itself and have it set to create your particular coating for your specialized manufacturing item. Vergason sells the equipment for such operations as well als delivering the finest custom coating finishes on demand. Wether you're in sporting goods (weightlifting components) or the novelty industry (like the babyshoes or winners prizes, cups, etc.) or you're in the automotive industry (think about the shiny parts of the car, like the lights, the chrome). The finest, thinnest coat can be ordered at Vergason or made by your own sputtering systems.