Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 14:11:54 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oven-baked paint finish
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I had great success baking on rust oleum black enamel when restoring and MGA. Would do it again.
Jim
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> On Jan 3, 2024, at 10:06 PM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Thanks Alistair. Here's another thing I learned...yesterday and today: DO NOT try to paint stuff in high humidity and low temperature. I got the goofy idea to refinish metal medicine cabinet and shelves. I followed directions.....successive light coats. Problem was, even here in San Diego, it is Winter! So that means 63 F days, and plenty of humidity that you guys up around the Island blow down to us!! Paint remained tacky even after 24 hours, still tacky. Ugh. OK....I need to bake out the solvents; tomorrow is supposed to be sunny. I will put painted metal medicine cabinet out in the sunshine all day, and see what happens. I tried using a small electric heater with fan to blow onto the project and that significantly helped. But, I will in the future wait for a weather forecast of strong sunshine and warmer days. Lesson learned: wait for proper conditions before painting.
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> On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 06:07:16 PM PST, Alistair Bell <ragnarhairybreeks@icloud.com> wrote:
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> Richard,
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> 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.
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> Leaving aside jappaning. That’s baked but different.
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> I don’t know about modern paints and baking. Certainly body shops bake paint to a degree, not what you were doing though
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> Alistair
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>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 10:52 AM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> 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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