What I use for bake on finishes

[Old Dog Man]

This is what I've been using for 14+ yrs. to cure bake on finishes. Had the box made at local sheet metal shop, 12"x12"x 48" shoebox style. Put a 4 coil 220 volt oven element with oven control, and a thermometer mounted in the lid. Wrapped the outside of the box with insulation, the hard board type used in furnaces and covered it with plywood, with angle iron legs. Put an oven rack over the element to protect it and lay a piece of the insulation board on top of that to disperse the heat to the ends of the box. Was going to mount a fan for that purpose , but found I didn't need it. all the metal get's to the proper temp without the fan, checked with a lazer temp. devise. Drilled holes in the top flange of the box and use bent coat hangers to hold long parts and pie pans for small stuff. Hang bolts, trigger guards, and other parts on wire hooked over coat hangsr wire.

 

[1KPerDay]

Cool. Or hot, rather.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Horizontal means you have a MUCH more even temp, sure beats my toaster oven, been thinking of a new home for it, dismantling it for parts, cost me $10 at good will.

 

[brigadier]

That's COOL!! I might have to try that. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Shadow 7D]

Seen similar build out of heating duct work insulated inside and out with the HVAC board insulation.

 

[Blanco]

Old Dog
You are just full of surprises

 

[Old Dog Man]

Baking Oven

Just used it today on my project rifle, I mixed black with s.s. and got a nice steel grey finish. The finish is Tuff-Kote (MDSO) I like it almost as good as Cerekote. Had some left over and no Cerekote. Will have new pics of project in a couple of days. Maybe some target shots.

 

[mookiie]

That is a really ingenious way of solving that problem thanks for sharing!