Heating Painted parts in Oven

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Hi Fellow Barners. I am rebuilding brakes on my A. I have seen posts where Barners have put small parts in their Wife's Oven when She is Not Home. Does it work ? what temp ? and for How Long. Thank you Spokes
 
Spokes said:
Hi Fellow Barners. I am rebuilding brakes on my A. I have seen posts where Barners have put small parts in their Wife's Oven when She is Not Home. Does it work ? what temp ? and for How Long. Thank you Spokes
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That depends if she catches you, or not. (sorry, I just had to say that):D
Someone will come along shortly and give you a serious answer.
 
Yes it works with enamel. Lowest setting on the oven for a few hours.
Yes don't let the wife catch you :D My mom was patient with this practice my wife not so much!!
 
I do it often on spray painted parts spayed from a spray can. I'll put them in at 200 degrees 30 minutes minimum.
Sent the little woman off to a shoe sale and she'll never know!
The nice thing about drying paint in your oven is you wont get small Gnats and other flying bugs in your fresh uncured paint like you might drying outside.
 
Used stoves and exhaust fans are very cheap! Buy one for the garage or shed ( I did ) for this type of work. Wayne
P.s. Who knows when you might move out there once she finds all the Model A receipts!
 
Should be a lot of give away electric stoves around and heating elements are cheap. Put a piece of sheet steel or plywood on top and you have more bench space with storage in oven between paint baking events.
 
It works great...

Also, the dishwasher is a fantastic parts washer, and the sink in our skullery is 20" X 32".

I'm not joking... my Wife just rolls her eyes now :-D
 
As said, yes low temp for several hours = good job, BUT don't do what I did. forgot it overnight, wife wakes me up, "what is that smell, I think the house is on fire", I spring out of bed, find my gloves I had hidden in the kitchen pantry, and was caught red handed holding an exhaust manifold. No explanation will be good enough. Years later, she came into the garage and wondered what I did with that nice oven. Nuff said...
 
Drying in my gas oven didn't stinking up the house. Don't know about electric, could be the flames burn the fumes before they escape the oven. Oh, still run the exhaust vent.
 
When we remodeled the kitchen, I put the old electric stove/oven out in my shop. I took the top off and just use the oven for powder coating and other heating jobs, warms the shop up in the winter too! It's large enough that I can get a 17" wheel in it! Another thing to consider, besides the smell, what toxic gases are being emitted when it's heating those painted parts? There's a reason that the powder coating suppliers warn not to use an oven that you cook food in!
 
Phoenix in the summer, parts out in the sun. Does not make the wife mad and no toxic fumes in the oven. Currently 105 degrees in Phoenix in the shade.
 
here is what happens when you get caught using the oven.
 

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For small stuff, I just balance parts on a horizontal portion of the exhaust pipe from our water heater...as noted above, bright sunshine is sufficient to get some hardening. I'm about to build a simple heater for the workbench for the small stuff, essentially a pie pan above a lamp with a 100 watt bulb.
I don't dare go near the oven...wife is a lawyer.
 
My wife stores her teaching & quilting materials in the garage.
I store my freshly painted parts in the kitchen oven.

She is still ahead on that trade!
 
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