Discussion
Past couple of times I've painted (interior) heavy plastic trim pieces I've oven baked them to "harden" the paint.
Basically paint, leave to dry for several hours then into the oven at about 80C for an hour.
Seems to have worked quite well.
I now have a couple of door handle covers which are very thin plastic. No issues painting but I expect they will deform at anything beyond 40-50C.
Is it work baking them once painted at such a low temp?
Basically paint, leave to dry for several hours then into the oven at about 80C for an hour.
Seems to have worked quite well.
I now have a couple of door handle covers which are very thin plastic. No issues painting but I expect they will deform at anything beyond 40-50C.
Is it work baking them once painted at such a low temp?
Why do you want to bake them? The only advantage to baking at a bodyshop is production speed, meaning you can get a car out and another one in? It doesn't do anything to help the paint otherwise?
Modern lacquers that are baked are done in the booth at 60c for about 40 mins or whatever the TDS states, I wouldn't go up to 80.
1k paint just air dries as the solvent evaporates and 2k paint is a chemical reaction between the paint and hardener. None of that requires excessive heat, the paint atomises and lays down nicer at about 20c for spraying but otherwise I wouldn't worry about heat?
Modern lacquers that are baked are done in the booth at 60c for about 40 mins or whatever the TDS states, I wouldn't go up to 80.
1k paint just air dries as the solvent evaporates and 2k paint is a chemical reaction between the paint and hardener. None of that requires excessive heat, the paint atomises and lays down nicer at about 20c for spraying but otherwise I wouldn't worry about heat?
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