Michael --
I have baked many parts using only Plastikote engine enamel without any
primer at all, and never had a failure of the finish. It is important to
completely degrease the parts, of course, and I usually treat steel parts
with a metal prep solution before painting. I don't have any experience
with baking primers.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain
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> From: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>
> To: Lancer7676@aol.com
> Cc: MG List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Baking enamel.......
> Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 1:33 PM
>
>
> I recently had an interesting experience baking enamel on parts. I
> put some small parts that had been primed and painted with spray
> enamel into a 200 deg oven. It looked good but the paint later came
> off in sheets. The metal was shiny -- the bond was lost between the
> primer and the part. Other baked parts were okay where I'd used
> engine primer and engine paint. It leads me to beleive some primers
> aren't suitable for the bake treatment. Back in the days when I was
> on the factory floor we baked beautiful enamel on our equipment in a
> huge oven, but I don't know what kind of enamel was used or whether we
> even primed the parts. Anyone know enough about paint to enlighten us
> on this?
>
> ---Lancer7676@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Allen--
> >
> > A while back there was a thread about baking enamel. I think wheels
> would be
> > perfect for baking. I plan to bake mine when I enamel paint them.
> Gives a
> > good hard dry finish.
> >
> > ---David
> >
>
> ==
>
> Michael B. Dietsche, P.E.
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