Let's see your JIG hanging Racks

[bassman356]

Made to fit my toaster oven

[Tracker12]

Small question. If you load up that rack then heat the jigs. How do you get them all painted before they cool off? By the way that is a really neat rack.

[bugman]

When i'm dipping one at a time i use this simple system,dip hang on rod and hang in oven.When i'm doing several at a time i fire up the big bed preheat the jigs in the oven dip,clean eyes and cure all on the same rack.

[bassman356]

Small question. If you load up that rack then heat the jigs. How do you get them all painted before they cool off? By the way that is a really neat rack.

I don't preheat them. I use an alcohol burner to heat one at a time, dip in the powder, run a round toothpick thru the eye, then hang on rack to bake after I've got it full.

[no1son]

Mine is crude by everybody else's standards, but my scale is also personal. I have recently gone over to powder painting and this works for me. First of all I have detachable rods, three of them all very thin threaded rods that fit easily inside my toaster over, and I dip my jig heads individually. Each rod is thin enough to hold a size 8 jig hook loosely enough so that I can remove them one at a time with a needle nose pliers. The racks are nothing more than wire coat hangers bent to form the base to hang the rods on, one for inside the oven and the other for hanging dipped heads prior to curing and for loading the rods prior to preheating. The threads on the rods keep the jig heads from sliding into each other when I move the loaded rods which only takes a needle nose pliers. I have one rack outside for hanging the jigs on after dipping. Each rod holds up to 2 dozen 1/32 nd oz jig heads. I load them on the rod and move each rod as a unit to the rack in the oven while the oven is cold. 2 dozen or under the one rod goes on the notch closest to the door for pre-heating. For larger batches when the front rod is empty, I simply move the back rod to the front of the oven and use the empty rod outside to hang the next jigs on. I do not do over 4 dozen at a sitting, and I both preheat and cure them all at once, whether there is just one rod full or I use two rods.

I went down to the local ACE hardware with a couple of jigs in my pocket to pick out the rod which I then cut down into the sections. The coat hangers came out of the back closet.

As you can see from the crude drawing the racks are crude but they work just fine for what I need them to be. I pull the rack and the pan that came with the oven years ago and place the jig rack right on the bottom. I also dip as cool as possible which produces almost no runs or plugged jig eyes. This works well enough for black which is all I paint anyway.

[alhersch]

Here is my jig rack I use before and after the oven:


Al