Painting parts & oven baking.

[Huffa]

Can you bake any type of paint in an oven? How many degrees at approx?

I'm doing quite a few metal parts with rustolem hammered paint and it doesn't mention on can but was wondering if this would help harden the paint and make it a bit more durable.

[chris200x]

I would think if it doesn't tell you to do it on the back of the can you really don't have to bake them. I have seen certian kind of paints that do require baking. If I recall correctly most contain ceramic and needed to be baked at two diffrent tempratures...the highest being around 600 degrees or higher.

[TheOlderFox]

I wouldn't bake a paint unless is says too to allow proper hardening. The heat will help set a paint that needs to bond to the metal, cure, or become liquid (powdercoat), but won't do anything except burn a paint that just normally dries. Most paints have a solvent in them that evaporates until dry and just rely on the adhesion properties of the paint to hod it to the painted surface.

[wanta86r]

Can you bake any type of paint in an oven? How many degrees at approx?

I'm doing quite a few metal parts with rustolem hammered paint and it doesn't mention on can but was wondering if this would help harden the paint and make it a bit more durable.

never should you ever consider putting a spray can painted part in the oven. Powdercoating, and maybe ceramic coatings are the only kind of coatings to be baked. The only thing the rustolem would do is melt off and make a huge mess. The baking done for powdercoating is only to heat the metal up so its pours open, and basically suck in the coating, thats why its such a durable coating.