[Collins] Painting Cabinets

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:15 -0500, Tom Bates wrote:
> 
> >>I have found an electric space heater in an old
> refrigerator cabinet gets up to 180 or 200F 
> 
> 
> Look Out !!  I learned (in an exciting way) that solvent from drying paint will ignite and blow the doors off of an oven if you use heat elements that are not encased and glow red.
> Tom  -  AA1NZ
> 
> 
> 
Over several years of painting and drying, that solvent ignition problem
never occurred, though with open thermostat contacts on the heater I was
giving it plenty of reason to expand rapidly. Maybe I let the major
fumes evaporate first each time.

The spray paints were usually from Rustoleum though one I recall using
was from Sears, an epoxy appliance paint that stuck to a computer
keyboard enclosure unless it hit a concrete wall hard enough to bend the
aluminum.
-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Adviser to the Collins Radio Association
All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer