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Offline ANVkevin

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no bake engine paint
« on: December 16, 2009, 08:08:03 PM »
After a stupid amount of "engine paint" searches I'm still unclear about a few things.

I'd like to paint my engine (while assembled) with either VHT or Duplicolor engine enamel. I'm leaning towards duplicolor after reading some of the posts. I'm not really to keen on putting my engine in my oven. Individual parts maybe, but I'm not going to rebuild it until next year. I've read people have had luck "baking" the paint by running the engine; however, I wont have it ready to run for a month or so. Is it cool to let it cure without baking it or will I just end up messing it up without immediate baking? Does a paint exist that doesn't require any baking?
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Offline ron.cieri.313

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Re: no bake engine paint
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 08:14:21 PM »
I'm about to find out...during my winter rebuild of the tranny and many other parts of the bike, I found out its better to pay a little dough rather then try to cure paint in the cold.

...but, the swingarm I did on the cheap and brought inside to cure...the engine...well, I'm not taking that to a paint shop so I'm using engine primer and paint (Alvin's I believe but I will finish with one of the other brands from the auto store)
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Re: no bake engine paint
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 08:40:01 PM »
I am going to use the stuff from the parts store and hope for the best. I will just let it cure outside for a while. No choice really... It will look better than it did when I got it!!!
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Offline bistromath

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Re: no bake engine paint
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 08:40:48 PM »
Well, if it were summer, you could do like me and paint your parts out in the sunshine. The hot sun on a windless day easily gets parts up to 120+, enough to cure them pretty well.

Since it's not summer, you could try a space heater a couple feet away, or underneath. The paint is VERY fragile until it's baked in.
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Offline ANVkevin

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Re: no bake engine paint
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 08:54:17 PM »
Maybe I'll paint it and drag the damn thing into the family room where our wood stove resides. It's on average about 15 degrees outside, but near the wood stove is probably about 90 with very low humidity. Give that a week or two and with any luck that'll work...
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Re: no bake engine paint
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 11:36:40 PM »
ive used VHT universal aluminium,sprayed in the sun,on sun heated engine cases,it wasnt assembled and run for about a week after and the paint is fine.dirty finger prints dont stain it or anything,its hardened really well,its three years old now and still looks good.
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