What not to do in the kitchen

[chilly]

Ah ha!!, at 8pm last night i thought i'll just stick these Norton barrells in the oven after painting them,this time i read the instructions,curing time 1 hr at approx 200C,so in the oven it went,on with the timer and back out into the shed,(Barb is out by the way),hour and a half later back into the kitchen,Jesus Christ almighty i thought the bloody house was on fire smoke poured out the door and did it stink,so i opened all the doors so it could vent,left it a while,then fired up one of those nice smelly burners,sprayed loads of that nice smelly spray that supposedly gets rid of all the odours(ha! they must be joking) took the barrels back out to the shed,its actually made a nice job,went back in house and the stink is unbelievable so now i open upall the doors to vent,wow its bloody cold,then Barb comes home,there's me thinking i'm in for a right ole bollicking but bless her she just gave me one of those looks that says what the feck have you been up to this time and that was it,wow that was a result,bloody hell tho, it still stinks bad this morning ,so i'm now on the look out for a cabinet or old oven i can make into a paint curing oven.
Just thought i'd post this on here so as a word of warning to other budding painters.

[BaZa®]

You've got a goodun there Chilly...Laughed me head off reading that, you an ex fireman an all...
Done a bit of venting and salvage work haven't we mate...

Souds as though your wife is WAY more tolerant than mine - I still get stick for using the oven to heat my cam support plate to drop the new bearings in - ok there may have been a little oil still in the passages

TC

[zipps]

I can never see the point of curing barrels after painting ...just stick them back on the bike and fire her up...If you are careful you can cure paint with an electric blow lamp..or heat the item up before you appy the paint.. great heat is not needed on normal spray paint as it is always soft....

[chilly]

Yep your right there Zipps,but this was some fancy high temp stuff that just goes tacky untill its heated to a certain temp,this is not very handy when trying to put them back onto the crankcases,done loads of barrels before using other paints with no problem,just thought i'd try this as i had it handy,ah well, lifes just one big learning curve.

Yes and your right,it is a good idea to preheat them gently with a heatgun when using ordinary paints,goes off so much quicker this time of year ,tried it with this paint and it had no effect.

Just as an addition to this painting of barrels lark,apparently its not a good idea to powder coat them as it doesn't allow the heat to disperse easily.

Chill

[Chiefy]

Originally Posted by chilly

Just as an addition to this painting of barrels lark,apparently its not a good idea to powder coat them as it doesn't allow the heat to disperse easily.

Chill

I've Powdercoated Barrels, Heads and crankcases in the past with no obvious problems. as long as your powdercoater knows his stuff it's okay. As an aside, we regularly powdercoat heat exchangers at work, I've done loads of testing on these and the difference in heat transfer is negligable.

[chilly]

Thanks Chiefy
Just something i'd come across a while ago and seemed feasable.I know the rear cylinders on the older Harleys run hot,was just a thinking this could be a hinderance with the cooling process .

Chill

[hippy]

Hry Chilly
you made me laugh and reminded me of 2 of my mates Brent and Kev,they were rebuilding an engine[and yes it would of been British because thats all we rode in the good old days] and they also waited till Fat Fred and Dotty[parents]had gone out to the pub whilst waiting for the sunday roast to cook and banged the crankcase halfs in the oven to heat up and then replaced the mains ,then put the roast back in the oven,they all sat down to sunday dinner and Dotty went mental ,she could taste oil in the roast

[robbiemac]

Reminds me when i coated the barrels from my old XS650, i used Sperex VHT silver and baked them in the oven. No smells or anything untowards but when i took them out the oven to admire my handiwork, one of the liners slid out and went flying to the floor. The other one was on it's way out too!!
Sharpish, i picked up the fallen liner and popped it back in and slapped the other one down for good measure.
All i can say is, glad i was wearing oven gloves as they were a wee bit on the hot side.
After the rebuild i had no problems with the barrels at all. Lucky