Richard, You know by now that baking enamel type paint is a thing. Can be a rat hole of possibilities. But it does rely on the appropriate paint, old days it was oil based enamel type. Leaving aside jappaning. That’s baked but different. I don’t know about modern paints and baking. Certainly body shops bake paint to a degree, not what you were doing though
Alistair > On Jan 2, 2024, at 10:52 AM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > OK....here's an oddball one I've never seen discussed.... Suppose you are restoring some small metal part. You've wirebrushed, sanded, primed, rattle can painted (oil based paint). I just did such a job restoring an old Bench Vise, and then somehow I got the idea to "oven bake" it. Man, did that ever turn out great! You can just feel it somehow. Finish seems incredibly strong. I just put parts on a foil covered cookie sheet, and put into 275-300 F oven for 20 minutes; after the fact, I did some Internet snooping and turns out my approach was nearly spot on. Apparently this enhances the polymers in the paint to weld themselves together somehow. Where I want to try this again is when I re-finish my Vanagon door handles, I want something perfect and super durable. I am also thinking of this approach for around the house projects. Anybody got any experience in oven baking small metal parts? |
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