Shooter's Coatings is owned by a USMC veteran and is based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

 

Armorer Disassembly, Cleaning, Reassembly and Function Check: 

 

As part of our services we fully disassemble, inspect, clean, and prepare the parts for coating. After cleaning, parts must be blasted with an abrasive media, typically fine aluminum oxide, to prepare the substrates for coating, which is necessary achieve maximum adhesion of the ceramic to the parts and provide the best long term results. After coating, we reassemble and do the standard function tests specified by the manufacturer for each specific firearm or weapons system, where the complete firearm or system was sent. We do not do live-fire function testing unless specifically specified by the customer, for which additional charges would apply. 

 

Tight Tolerance Parts and Markings:

 

We do not coat sears, springs, bores/chambers or other tolerance critical or high-flex parts. In addition, we do not media blast scopes or other optics and as a result there will not be as good an adhesion of the Cerakote to those items. 

 

TOLERANCE: For standard firearms applications it is often inadvisable to coat both pins and pin holes, as the resulting one (1) mil thickness of the coating when applied to rounded surfaces creates increase of two (2) mil to the part tolerance and four (4) mil (.004) when both hole and pin are coated. This is also applicable to auto-pistol slide and frame fit, such as on tight-fitting 1911’s. We typically plug or mask holes and pins and only coat the pin ends. However, we can coat pins and holes and then custom fit these parts after coating for an additional charge. We recommend hand fitting and lapping for 1911 pistol slides and frames as this will yield a precision fit and can help to tighten looser fitting slide/frame combos. 

 

MARKINGS: For receivers, frames, slides, picatinny rails which have painted on or lightly laser etched markings these markings will be lost during the surface preparation and coating unless they are machine engraved or stamped. If these markings are of great importance we can mask over them, but areas in and immediately around the markings will not be coated and, as such, will not blend. 

Manufacturers serial numbers will be masked at no additional charge where needed or coated where possible.