Have any of you tried dipping jigheads in water after you pull them out of powder paint instead of faning them like crazy until you can lay them down.
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Have any of you tried dipping jigheads in water after you pull them out of powder paint instead of faning them like crazy until you can lay them down.
That's the only way I do it. Can't imagine any other way. It would take you forever.
I hang my jigs to let them cool.
If I am doing just a few I may do that, but when I do a bunch (actually anything more than a few) I just use my stats to take them out of the toaster over and hang them on a rack I use then painting. If I use the big oven I have my rain gutters on top of a cookie sheet that has been covered on top with tin foil. Then I take the entire cookie sheet out and let it sit for a few minutes. I think it only takes like 5-6 minutes even for 1/4 Oz. and the cookie sheet.
Small heads like 1/32 cool so fast once you take them out and hang them they are cooled.
Skip
I hand my heads on the edge of a flat cake pan to cool. By the time I am done dipping them I can rack the coll ones and the hot ones are cool by the time I am done.
we do the same as you skip .
Are you talking about dipping your heads in water before you cure them or when you take them out of the oven? I have a metal rack like your wife would set her hot pie on to cool. Don't tell her where it went.:eek: I hang my jigs on it after powder painting. When I remove my jigs from the oven, I just let them cool off on top of the oven for 15 minutes or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by boogullman
I do like 10 at a time.I just let them in there.lol
I'm talking about when I'm painting, not after cureing.
Never then and just hang them on a baking rack I have that is stair step with 3 rails on each side. I only have to use one rail though as I can take them off pretty fast after hanging them. If I paint 12 and when done take off 8 they will be cool and in just a minute or two the last 4 will be cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter7711
This way if I keep rotating them I take 8 off and paint more until I need the space where the first 4 were still hanging and then take them off and keep adding.
Skip
I just hang them on my bobbin holder on my vise. Paint one, push it to the left, paint another push it to the left without touching, paint one, push the first 2 to the left and hang the 3rd without touching, ect. Works for me.
Even if you heated them in the oven they cool pretty quick, and with a heat gun they only get heated for 8-10 seconds. With all the threads on this board showing racks you should be able to make a cheap rack.
When I do my powder painting I'm doing 100's of jigs, I heat my jigs up in the oven and even then they don't stay that hot for that long.
Besides if you messed up heating the jig head and it still had loose powder on it dumping it in water would ruin the powder.
Fatman
I heat mine up with the heat gun and then apply the powder paint, then put them over the heat again to melt and cure the paint for about 4 seconds on each side, then dip them in water. It doesn't give the paint as hard of a finish as heating them in the oven, but does give them a pretty hard finish in my opinion.