Method of making composite laminate for sliding elemens

A method of making a multilayer composite sliding element, comprising the steps of:

• (a) degreasing a sliding surface of a metal sliding layer;
• (b) applying to the degreased surface without roughening thereof a uniform thickness coating of a dispersion of sliding-promoting solids in the form of fine particles in a film-forming polymer solution to a thickness up to 50% greater than a thickness of said solids;
• (c) forming in said coating a multiplicity of flecks in a generally leopard-spot pattern by reducing the thickness of said coating and precrosslinking and drying said coating of said dispersion to form a film having over a major part of said sliding surface a basic thickness of <10 .mu.m having nonuniformly distributed islets of said solids projecting from said film and constituting said flecks, said islets having a greater thickness then said basic thickness and said particles being located in said islets;
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• (d) baking said film into said surface and fixing said islets therein at a temperature between 100.degree. C. and 250.degree. C.