Thread: IR Curing Lamp or Such...

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I am in need of some way to cure my parts that I will be powder coating. The oven I had was for 220 Volt and I don't have that in my house so I need some kind of IR lamp to build or something to run on 110 or on propane. Any info here on how to do this CHEAP? I looked at IR lamps with 2000watts or something and on a retractable stand and all that other fancy stuff but they are 300-400 bucks and just too much. I can also build my own stand, etc so that is no big deal.
Any help on any info or idea's on a IR lamp, oven to make, etc would be GREATLY appreciated.


Shawn-

Not sure if it was here or on another board that I saw this.
But someone build a oven that sat on top of his gas BBQ I don't remember all the details but he did show pix of stuff he had power coated in it and they looked good from the pix...... If I'm not mistaken the power coating is flamable so you have to keep it away from open flame

If I find the post I'll put it up here

MM64

Well I went and found the link......
http://www.roddingroundtable.com/for...highlight=oven
Not sure if you can view it without being a member

I was mistaken on the pix he put up they were of hi temp paint
He had not bought a powder coating system yet at that time
But the oven did get to 400* which is hot enough for powder

MM64

A friend of mine bought a used commercial oven at a school auction (cheap!!) It will maintain 500 degrees and works great for curing powder coated small parts!!!! Shawn, check with NAPA. I bought an IR lamp with stand from our local store awhile back for $260.00, works great!!!

Heres what I would do. Go to wall mart, buy about 3- 4 or more 20 dollar toaster ovens. Take out the heating coils, there may be 2 per oven, both same size and everything, get everything from them just leaving the cases. Build a good sized box out of metal, somthing about 14 gauge would be ok. Pop rivit it togther. cut out a door and hinge it and put a slide bolt lock on it. Take your toaster oven guts and place only the coils inside, drill holes for the wiring to come out, build a small switch box on it to mount the on off switch/ temp control switches if your ovens have them, some do, some don't. Use a standard 110 light switch for the switch, wire all of the hot wires to it, then to a heavy duty lead cord with 6.5' cut off it ( 3' is standard, 6.5' will give you what you need ) ( I think hot is black but, the back of the switch tells, wire the others togther then wire that into the heavy duty lead cord. Don't do anything with the ground, cut it off, If you wire it to the switch, you will ground everything out, and it will trip the breaker every time ( remember the box is metal ). Just space the coils evenly througout the box and you could get it to the needed temp, isn't it 400*?. Ya could put in a probe style temp gauge on it, if ya welded in a 1/4" bung. Just a thought

I thought about building one but.... It is a little more than just that. I need to have it all insulated and everything. Thanks for the BBQ idea and Matt the thing about 20 for the coils is good and cheaper than getting them from huge ovens I will do that when I get money to build my own big one. Oh I have seen something about the BBQ and I totally forgot about that. I am going to try that in a few days. Oh I am a member to that site already heh. Good site... My name on it is SMF Speed&Custom.

check the watts , no more than ~1500 watts can be plugged into and one outlet ON EACH CIRCUIT BREAKER

sorry for shouting, but don't want an initial failure for you...

Thanks tool. Our circuits in the house suck. The garage wont run the welder much, it pops the breaker 5 times in 45 minutes and same with the compressor. We have 2 fridges hooked up too so that doesn't help. I may just have to save up and get the curing IR lamp.
Also, how come I don't get notified about new posts or anything? I even subscribe to these and still dont get any... :?