Making your own baking oven?

[That Bloke]

When I do up my Vespa I want to do as much myself as I can, I can't remember what temperature is required to cure baked enamel paints, what is the temperature?

Could an effective baking oven be achieved with several strip heaters in a shed?

[frednurk]

Strip heaters and paint that is curing and releasing volatile vapours is a BAD IDEA. Baked enamel requires serious temperature. Are you talking about 2 pack perhaps? Needs around 30 degrees celcius and quite high humidity- and NO ignition sources. Fines apply if you are caught using the stuff without a certified spray booth. My advice would be leave it to the professionals. If I read of a house lifting itself off its stumps then I can only conclude it was your bad.

[That Bloke]

Originally posted by frednurk
. My advice would be leave it to the professionals.

Stove enamle(& similar industrial baked finishes) require very high temperature, I know the temperature for automotive baked enamel paints is less than 55 degrees celsius, Many things in a car that aren't normally removed for painting(to time consuming) are very flamable, hence the Auto paints are designed to be baked at lower temperature.

Local places don't allow booth rental, Local places don't do custom jobs, Only repare & even then they charge the earth, Nobody here in the business will do murals & if they could they'd charge thousands, I can do murals.

Incidently, the local tafe autobody devision was a large shed with exhaust fans, they used large lamps for paint curing, I'm not sure where I'd get those lamps though.

My own spray booth would cost upward of $70,000, which I certainly don't have.

2 Pak is what I intend on using but the point remains that it is a semi baked finish.

[frednurk]

I think if you ask around you will find a spray painter who moonlights. The local guys I approached here told me that for what I was after that there was no way he could do it through the business because it would cost too much. He actually suggested I talk to one of the "young blokes" he employs and that they would be able to help me.

2 pack is roughly analogous to a mixture of 24 hour araldite and superglue. It makes you very sick if you breathe the stuff. Trust me on this one- from past experience it is not something you want to do. You need full body protection and breathing gear if you spray it.

A mural on a Vespa. Hmmmm. Naked lady?

[That Bloke]

Originally posted by frednurk
I think if you ask around you will find a spray painter who moonlights. The local guys I approached here told me that for what I was after that there was no way he could do it through the business because it would cost too much. He actually suggested I talk to one of the "young blokes" he employs and that they would be able to help me.

2 pack is roughly analogous to a mixture of 24 hour araldite and superglue. It makes you very sick if you breathe the stuff. Trust me on this one- from past experience it is not something you want to do. You need full body protection and breathing gear if you spray it.

A mural on a Vespa. Hmmmm. Naked lady?

Nope, Joy Division themed, I have worked with 2 pak before, our tafe teacher was in the trade & got us in the booth at his workplace, only let us do very small componants(like the glove box lid of the mk1 Cortina I had) though.

[DumHed]

I reckon you could use the heat lamps designed for the IXL-tastic style ceiling mount bathroom heaters.

They're 275W mainly IR lamps.

[That Bloke]

Originally posted by DumHed
I reckon you could use the heat lamps designed for the IXL-tastic style ceiling mount bathroom heaters.

They're 275W mainly IR lamps.

IXL tastics are what I was thinking of, Heat lamp & Exhaust fan in one unit, Know a cheap source of large amounts of pre-loved IXLs?

[DumHed]

nup, but the bulbs are available from K-Mart, probably Bunnigns, and other such places if you wanted to put them in your own holders.

I can't remember what they cost though.