Mirror Coating Services

I am wondering if anyone knows af a Mirror Coating Service in the Los Angles area? I hate to have to drive all the way to the Bay area for AlCoat.
Floyd

I found this post, thought it very interesting! :^0

I thought this would be of interest to anyone thinking of recoating
> their primary. This reply was sent to our own Bruce Jensen, on
> sci.astro.amateur:
>
> I own a 12.5" StarMaster (ordered after Rick/John Hall stopped offering
> enhanced coatings). Last month I happened to be on vacation in the area where
> Rick Singmaster lives so I stopped by for several hours one day. While I was
> there, the conversation got around to enhanced coatings. What QSP told you
> is correct --- for a properly applied enhanced coating. The problem that
> Rick and John Hall were having is that about 30% of the time the enhanced
> coating was not properly applied and resulted in significant light scattering
> and degradation of the image. Since Rick actually observes with every scope
> he sells prior to delivery to the customer, he was able to catch the problem
> and send the mirror back for re-coating. They never had a problem with the
> mirrors that had been re-coated, so apparently the coater took more care the
> second time around. However, Rick and John decided that the rejection rate
> on the enhanced mirrors was such that it was not worth the hassle and stopped
> offering the enhanced coatings. John Hall now recommends the standard 89%
> coating on the combined with enhanced coatings on the secondary.
>
> A rather humorous sidenote is that a couple of months ago, after a similar
> thread on this newsgroup, Rick got a call from QSP. Apparently they thought
> he had started the thread and was disparaging them, and this person said that
> nobody had ever complained to them about any problems. Rick doesn't have
> time to play on the computer other than to help his wife answer the e-mail
> and told them that he has never even logged on to S.A.A. and in any event,
> the enhanced coating problems were not confined to just QSP. He also pointed
> out that QSP's own records would show the number of mirrors he had to send
> back for recoating at which point the person had nothing further to say.
Floyd

Reposting this from my reply on the equipment talk forum:

Precision Applied Products. They have a website: http://www.precisionapplied.com/

They coated a 10" for me a few years ago and did a very nice job. Good service, quick turnaround, and they did the secondary for free (just put it in the chamber with the primary). They are located in Placentia, a suburb of LA.

Jarad