I know this is an old post, but I just remembered I forgot to respond. I skimmed your message and before I read it clearly, I thought you had put the steel rod on the dash in order to paint it! I was thinking why the heck would he put it on the dash to paint it! Won't that get paint all over the dash. Admittedly, it was a dumb thought, but it was my first thought when I read it. Glad you didn't do that.
Don Snook -----Original Message----- From: Craig [mailto:diese...@pisquared.net] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 7:41 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] Curing paint on small painted objects I recently painted a steel rod for a project I'm working on with several coats of black rattle-can spray paing over 3 or 4 days. A few days later, I found the paint hadn't really hardened, so I thought of heating the piece up with a hair dryer/heat gun. That didn't work too well and I was concerned about getting the paint too hot in the spot in front of the heat gun. I solved the problem by putting the piece on the dark blue dashboard of our '82 240D/3.0 with the front window facing south. That worked like a champ. It heated up the rod uniformly until it was almost too hot to hang onto. The paint is good and hard now. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
