Thread: Heating in toster oven?

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Some people do. One problem, you have to handle hot jigs.
I use a lot of forceps and a heat gun.
Made trays to hang jigs on for the curing.

set up to do 4 colors



Painted jigs are placed on the rods and the trays go into the oven for curing

I use an alcohol burner to head the heads then dip in paint, then cure in oven. First you need to check your toaster over to make sure you know what temps it has or where you need to set it to get the real temps you want.

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I used the oven for years in my business. The oven I had came with an oven rack and a pan. that pan would hold 75 or 80 jigs. I would load up the pan, put it in, set the temp and let them heat up. I used to run it up to arund 400 degrees. The temp I wanted was around 350 preheat but, with opening and closing the door, you get some heat loss.

From there I would use my forecepts to pull the jig (I loaded them a certain way on the tray for easy grabbing). I would paint, and use a heat gun to reheat if I needed to add other colors (with a brush). I had a custom built rack to hang the jig on while I was working through the entire load. It was made with galvanized 3/16in rod. I would hang them in a stager. After doing about 10 or 12, you could slide 10 together as they were cool enough to not stick.

After going through the entire pan, I would pull out my rack and dial my temp down to 325. I put the wire rack on a custom built holder and would hang my jigs on the wire rack. I could do about 80 jigs (these are 3/4oz 4/0hook jigs we are talking about). When the oven was at temp, I would put the rack in the top section and let it cure for 15 minutes. Shut her off, let them cool, pull them and package them. Helps having multiple ovens to keep the process moving when you are doing more than 10000 in the span of a couple months.

Black and decker was the model that I used. Always use a thermometer to ensure proper heat.

I took some trash guards, leaf guards, don't know what to call them, but they are made for gutters and keeping stuff out of you gutters on the house. I took them and bent as best I could so that I could hang painted head on these wire guards I had cut to size. The I cut them so I had 3 of these that I could put on a cookie sheet and use that to cure heads. It would hold about 120 heads. Found a picture of what I was using years ago, don't need that any longer, lol!

Oh forgot to say we had some tile flooring done a good while back and I saved a bunch of the pices of scraps and use some here to add weight and make it more stable.

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I use a thermocouple (type T) wire & reader to monitor temp. Threaded rod keeps jigs from sliding around.



Rods are easy to unload.



Watch your temp - these ovens always spike!