ABOUT THIS SITE

Finishing.com is the home page of the finishing industry ® -- a place for anyone interested in metal finishing / surface finishing to get info, enjoy the camaraderie, have some fun (and if an advertiser, secure some business).

We try to make finishing.com not just a helpful site -- but friendly and fun! No profanity, ad-hominems or spam, and never ever a 'pop-up', 'sticky' ad, or other maddening nonsense.

Whereas the advertisers listed in our on-line directories offer metal finishing services, supplies, and consulting, we operate this free informational website.

Contents of the site

Our Home page is a site map / table of contents of the site. Our most popular area is a very active 'HOTLINE Public Q&A Forum' where people from around the world discuss technical issues while having a little fun.

We also feature a technical library and FAQs about metal finishing.

On the commercial side, our Worldlink Directory Listings locate jobshops who can perform every type of finishing service, consultants, training services & software, plus chemicals & consumables and equipment for finishing shops. Our award-winning help wanted page is solely for positions in metal finishing.

Affiliation

Like the media of the old days, Finishing.com, Inc. is an independently owned small business. We've never sought nor accepted government grants or association stipends. Supporting advertisers who order a Worldlink listing, plus affiliate links to Amazon & other on-line vendors make the site possible.

History ... and Preserving It

We have been continuously on line since February 1989, starting as a dial-up BBS.

Extracts from our Hotline-Letters page were printed monthly in Metal Finishing magazine (an Elsevier Science publication) as the "Heard On the Hotline" column for over 10 years. When the WWW became publicly accessible in 1994, we moved there as the first WWW service for the finishing industry.

In May of 1995, Ted Mooney & Tom Pullizzi incorporated finishing.com. After guiding the site through its formative years, Tom moved on to become a high school science teacher. Bob Dylan & George Harrison said it best, Tom: If not for you, I couldn't even find the door.

In 2003, the American Electroplaters & Surface Finishers Society honored Ted with its Industrial Achievement award for the establishment of www.finishing.com.

We work to preserve the seminal idea of open sharing of knowledge that launched the web: no registration, no 'premium content', no spam to your e-mail -- you can still freely 'surf' just like the early days, and 99.9% of the content that was ever here still is ... we fight relentlessly to update broken links, constantly taking advantage of the wonderful Wayback Engine on The Internet Archive.

If you believe in the same general ideas as we, and are interested in a directory listing, banner ads, etc., please see "Your ads here".

Contact Information

Ted Mooney, P.E. RET is president of finishing.com.

Our address is:

  Finishing.com, Inc.

  523 Springfield Ave.,

  Pine Beach, NJ 08741

  email: mooney@finishing.com

If you need confidential help, or public forum assistance doesn't meet your needs, see our Consultants listings, or Ted's offering of inexpensive immediate private help.

Please appreciate that many of our 250,000 posters would prefer to phone for help rather than publicly posting. The only polite way we ever found to address the resulting impossible number of calls was to charge $25 for 15 minutes of personal telephone help. Some people prefer to publicly post at no charge; others have confidential issues or feel their time too valuable to waste when expert help is a phone call away; either is fine with us  🙂