How to Bake a Car Paint Job

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Part of the video series: How to Custom Paint a Car

Summary: Bake a car after it's been painted to finish the painting stage of giving a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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"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 at Expert Village. Everything's painted in both the paint booths, and now Tony's going to set each paint booth to bake. He has it set for probably 75 degrees when he's painting. Then you hit the trigger and you walk away. The booth has an automatic delay on it; this one is going to delay for 5 minutes. You can see the blink there. It will hold it at 75 degrees for 5 minutes, then it will run it up to probably 150 degrees for probably 40-50 minutes. You need to have 140 degrees steel temperature, surface temperature for 20 minutes to light the paint off to complete the chemical reaction. So you can see that one is set for 150 degrees, and the temperature will go up slowly here to that point. You can dry paint out in the open, but it takes a lot longer. We don't want it to just go fast, we want it to be"

eHow Article: How to Bake a Car Paint Job