i do have the 2012 cartridge on my 40's 2010 and yes they are cool but by the look of these ,they are cool looking you got to admit

 yeah correct... this is also my 40
its the leaked facebook-pic that goes half arround the mtb-world ^^"

 its a work of art, awesome job!

 my old 2010 stanchions.. now hardcoated in black PTFE.. a lot of mx-tuning company's can do that if u want to..
its way smoother than before.. compared to my 2012 fox36 it is not as smooth as the current 2012 kashima coating, but maybe the black stanchions need some travel time.. anyway i payed 170€ for them instead of ~600€ for kashima stanchions..

 could you give some examples of companies that would do a PTFE coating? I have some 2010 stanchions andI'm trying to decide on getting them PTFE coated or just getting 2012 Kashima ones. Are the PTFE stanchions smoother than the 2010 regular stanchions?

 pfew.. mh
at first: try to ask for special coatings in some MX-stores near u ... they should normaly have or know companies where u can get coatings in many ways..
here some examples from the company that tuned my stanchions:
+ www.pepe-tuning.de/assets/images/autogen/a_Dampfer_018.jpg
+ www.pepe-tuning.de/assets/images/Bild_027.jpg
+ www.pepe-tuning.de/assets/images/Bild_098.jpg

but be careful! mx-forks have stanchions made out of steel.. the fox40 and most of the mtb-forks are made out of aluminium.. (the only fork with steel stanchions i know is RS domain SC/DC ^^) ..that means not every known mx-coating will work on our forks stanchions! even my ptfe coating is more like a prototype version... there is no warranty of the coatings durability! all i know is: ptfe is more constant than the dlc coating - we (i) will see

second: imo the ptfe coating is smoother than the regular ones.. but not as smooth as the kashima coat from my fox36 .. thats all i can say at the moment.. we will see in which conditions the stanchions will be after this season

 thanks! i found a local machine shop that does work like this so im about to go in and see what the deal is. thanks for all yoru help!

 What did you find out about these coating?

 my mate went on experimenting..
www.pinkbike.com/photo/9399956