Aerospace Plating Services in Texas

Send the quality clauses with the RFQ rather than after the PO drops. We read each clause against what our quality system actually controls — specification and revision, type and class, sampling, record retention, right of access — and tell you before the order is placed if a clause calls for something we do not hold. Anything we cannot certify is called out in writing instead of assumed.

Thickness and salt-spray callouts do not translate one for one, so the print needs a new finish line rather than a substitution note; zinc-nickel versus cadmium plating sets out how the two deposits differ in sacrificial behavior and galvanic pairing. Zinc-nickel is harder and less lubricious than cadmium, so torque-tension on threaded parts usually has to be re-established rather than carried over. We can run a qualification lot alongside the legacy AMS-QQ-P-416 cadmium parts so the comparison is on the same hardware.

Relief baking is a process control; verification is a separate test. ASTM F519 notched specimens are processed with the production lot and sustained-load tested to show the plating process itself is not embrittling, and the bake record — temperature, duration and the interval between plating and bake — stays with the lot. High-strength steel work calling for cadmium plating runs at our McAllen plant.

The specification and its revision, the type, class and grade plated, the thickness delivered and how it was measured, any post-plate bake or supplementary treatment, and the lot identification that ties back to your packing list. Where your print calls a test we perform, the result appears on the certificate rather than a blanket statement of compliance. The systems those records sit under are listed on our certifications and approvals page.

Type II is the general-purpose sulfuric coating and accepts color and adhesive priming well. Type III is the thicker, harder coating specified where wear and load matter; it grows into the part as well as onto it, so dimensions, radii and threaded features have to be allowed for at design. The type, class and color combinations are laid out in the MIL-A-8625 type and class reference, and Type III hardcoat runs at the McAllen plant.

Yes. Conversion coating, primer and topcoat run on our Rowlett campus, so a detail can be chem filmed and painted without moving between vendors and without a second set of receiving inspections — see plating and coating under one roof. Send the masking requirement on the print, not after the first article.