How to Bake Paint on Brake Calipers

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 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 Andy has shot the primer, the base coat, the candy coat and two coats of clear, we're ready to bake this off. Modern paint doesn't so much dry as it does catalyze. That catalization occurs better at higher temperatures. So I'll throw the switch here from no bake into bake. That shuts off the lights in the booth. It recirculates the air so we can get hot air through there as affordably as possible. The temperature gauge on the booth panel is set at a hundred and fifty degrees for thirty minutes. That's kind of a compromise for a small job like this. We need a hundred forty degree metal temperature for twenty minutes to light the paint off. After the paint has cured for twenty minutes at that temperature, then we'll go through a cool down cycle and you'll be able to work with those parts probably twenty minutes after the booth shuts off. It circulates nice cool air through there and the furnace gets with the program, the temperature you see here will start to shoot up."