Powder Coating Baking Idea

[Pitbull Baits]

I got a stove/oven in my shop. Now I was thinking of powder coating a bunch of jigs at one time. Then putting them into my oven by hanging them from the racks. After I got enough in the oven turn it on to heat a bunch of them at once. Will this work if I do this? The stove is not used for any type of cooking just to dry out some of my plaster molds and now to melt lead on the stove top.

[Jig Man]

Some ovens get really high heat when getting up to temp. You might melt off the paint if your does.

[dlaery]

I got a stove/oven in my shop. Now I was thinking of powder coating a bunch of jigs at one time. Then putting them into my oven by hanging them from the racks. After I got enough in the oven turn it on to heat a bunch of them at once. Will this work if I do this? The stove is not used for any type of cooking just to dry out some of my plaster molds and now to melt lead on the stove top.

My oven is electric. I pre heat my oven to baking temp, put the jigs in and bake. One problem I have encountered is, after the oven reaches the baking temp, open the door to put in jigs and the temp drops about 30 to 50 degrees, so I give it an extra 6 min to get bake to baking temp, then set my timer for what ever is called for. I normally bake most everything 360 F for 20 minuets. one other problem was my temp fluctuated too much. the range of temp would be, say if I wanted to bake at 350, it would go up to 380 before the element would kick off and then cool down to 300 before it would come back on. Thermostat was old and a new thermostat was $70plus, so I bought a PID controller and now it keeps it at 350 plus or minus 1 degree. Now I used this for years before I put the controller on and worked fine. I just had a batch or 2 or Red that wasn't hard enough, so I wanted to make sure it was working correctly.

[steve187]

What is a PID controller ? Are they used on toaster ovens and conventional ovens both ?

[dlaery]

What is a PID controller ? Are they used on toaster ovens and conventional ovens both ?

Its an electronic temp control. It should work for anything, it would have to be wired. Since my oven is 220v, I had to get a relay and the controller turns the relay on and off. I am sure it would work for a toaster if you know how do hook it up. It cost me less than replaceing the theromstat on the oven, which was needed. I spent about $100 on everything (oven not inclueded) I had to find a place to mount the controller, put in a metal box and mounted on the wall. I had to buy a probe, about $25, to moniter the temp in the oven. The probe is just a thermocuple wire that wires into the controller.

I got the idea from Caswell Plating Forum. there is almost as many different controllers as there is fishing lures.

Here is the link, I'm not sure which one I have, but I called and they helped me select the unit I needed.

My link

[EdL]

What is a PID controller ? Are they used on toaster ovens and conventional ovens both ?

PID is a control system acronym for Proportional, Integral, Derivative. It is an engineering decription of a type of controller and what it deals with when trying to maintain a user setpoint. temperature.

Before I retired from instrument engineering work I cared about this stuff and used expensive instrument and control system for the chemical industry.

But now the question is how do you get one. Well I can only help explain what PID stands for.

I suggest you just find out the brand name and model that DLAERY uses and see if it would work for you and your setup.

ps for grins you might google PID Control. Be warned it might give you a headache though reading all about it.