Powder Paint trays

[Fatman]

I had mentioned this in a previous thread on powder painting. I didn't want to make a wire rack and I've always used the oven as long as I can keep it clean!!!

Well I bought some old cookie sheets that are MINE!! and use the following trays on top of them.



their just aluminum bread pans that I straigten the top on then I use a hand held punch and poke holes around the edge, then fold over. Put them on the cookie trays, put jigs in all the holes and put in the oven to warm up.

I take another batch of these trays and leave them out on the counter and after dipping you put the jigs in the holes in the cold ones. Any jigs you didn't get go back in the oven and while you wait for them to reheat you clean the eyes on the ones in the hold racks.

Works pretty good, and the aluminum bread pans can keep being re-used.

Fatman

[Doc Crappie]

Pretty good idea and sound pretty cost effective at the same time

[tntjigman]

Fatman, I sent you a pm but I think I figured it out. The hooks hang in holes and inside the pans. Very good idea. I am going to try it this evening! Thanks for the great tip.

[poppop]

great tip....wish I had known it before I spent two hours cutting and bending some pegboard hooks and making a wire rack. I need to learn the Keep It Simple Stupid approach sometimes. Thanks for sharing.

[Buckeye Mike]

Been using the little baking pans for a coupls of years now, got mine riged just like yours, fit right in the toaster oven, i got from Odd Lots, for like 25 bucks.

[thankfull]

I do 2-3 hundred at a time I've got a turkey baking pan and took some bailing wire 3 strands and twisted them together and lay them across the pan then hang the jig heads on the twisted wire you can do a couple hundred at a time. I have the wire ropes about an inch apart. and by having 3 strands twisted they don't bend and the jigs don't slide together.

[tntjigman]

Okay, I do have a question. How much time do you have to dip the heads once you take them out of the oven? My heat one at a time method is ok for small batches , but even then not much time before the lead cools and paint does not dry evenly.

[Decoy Carver]

Looks like that would work well.

[Fatman]

I find if I'm doing jigs with collars I can get 6 or 7 before they need to go back in the oven. Now if you have a fluid bed it might go quicker. Ballhead no collar go quick.

Fatman

[crappie josh]

here are my jig racks for powder coating/ drying/ jig tying/ ect...
my racks can hold up to 37 jigs at once and i have 6 racks so i can bake or what ever i need to do to 222 jigs all at once they hang right in the oven :D