How to Bake a Car's New Paint Job

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now that we've got done clearing the Miata. We've got all the paint on there. All the work is done. The work looks perfect. We're gonna bake the paint. Right now it's eighty eight degrees in there, I turn the switch over here to bake, and now it'd letting me with know the blinking five there we've got a five minute delay before it fires off the paint to a hundred and fifty degrees. That five minute delay, is about what we around here agree, is enough time for the paint to flash. There is a lot of solvents in the paint and we want to get those solvents out. We give it a few minutes to do that. Modern paint doesn't so much dry,as it does catalyze. The catalyzation process, the chemical reaction, takes place better if the steel is at a hundred and forty degrees for twenty minutes. After that point, the booth goes into an automatic cool down cycle and the car will be able to be unmasked and assembled with in a couple of hours after being baked off."