JET-HOT® Sterling™ provides lasting beauty. Its appearance shares the brilliance of chrome and the subtly of nickel. Other metallic-ceramic coatings look dull in comparison. The RMS numbers (a measure of smoothness) shown to the left, demonstrate how far JET-HOT has jumped ahead of other coatings. With the addition of silver powder to our exclusive formula, we have “beautified” our coatings by a factor of six on the RMS scale while improving performance.
					The chart to the left provides a comparison between JET-HOT and alternative methods for retarding rust. Quoting Car Craft (August 2002): “Anyone who still runs painted headers is a flake!” The chart shows why. At the same time, some producers of “high-tech” coatings actually promote 1,000 hour survival in this salt-spray test as a benefit. In startling contrast, JET-HOT Sterling™ withstands the same salt attack for over 5,000 hours. The testers called it quits before Sterling caved in.
					JET-HOT increases the endurance limit (fatigue strength) of most alloys subjected to stress loads, such as vibration produced by an engine, after exposure to high temperatures. In addition, JET-HOT does not contribute to hydrogen embrittlement, a condition associated with chrome and other coatings in which microscopic cracking can lead to premature and sudden part failure. The comparison to the left represents the average performance of 403 stainless steel, uncoated and coated with JET-HOT, after 10-million stress cycles. The results demonstrate how effectively JET-HOT protects substrates from thermal fatigue.