Do I really need to bake the powder coat outside? It's windy as **** and I have my first batch ready to go.. How bad are the fumes if you do it inside?
Do I really need to bake the powder coat outside? It's windy as **** and I have my first batch ready to go.. How bad are the fumes if you do it inside?
I have done it next to an open door with a fan. Still made the house smell like melted plastic.
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Just depends, if you are married then YES, you need to do it outside.
All jokes aside, it stinks. You will want to have it outside. I stick the oven right outside my garage door and close the door.
I'm a Happy Clinger.
I cook in the garage with the door shut, but I walk away during the cook. The quantity of gas generated is not large but it does stick around for a while. Basically, any decent ventilation reduces any toxic vapor but it does smell a bit.
Whatever!
I only did a small batch of 20 45ACP, and 20 9mm.. did it in the laundry room with the window open, wasn't too bad. Guess it will be compoundingly worse when I up it to 200 45ACP..
That is another reason I don't want to get into powder coating. If it works for you, go for it.
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Not noticed any smell in my shop/barn, but it is a big ‘un.
I quit smoking in 2002, musta really messed with my smeller cuz I never notice any smell in and enclosed garage. HF red, white and black and at least one of Smokes colors too. But my BIL says when I wash swage lube off my bullets on the Kitchen stove with boiling water it stinks the whole house. LOL I'll pay closer attention next time.
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There's an exhaust fan, vented to the outside, over the workbench where I place my toaster oven and while I sometimes notice a 'hot plastic' aroma when baking boolits, it's nothing I'd consider "fumes". But, then, I only do small batches (40-60 pcs per tray) and only use Smoke's powders.
Bill
"I'm not often right but I've never been wrong."
Jimmy Buffett
"Scarlet Begonias"
better to be safe now than to find out it causes cancer next year
Really really bad. Just wait.
Could the problem be the color? I PC with clear and it's almost odorless
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I put my powder coat curing oven in one of my fireplaces, no smell, easy to set up and take down. My wife can use the other if she wants a fire.
no problems baking inside
I have started that way and continue to
do all my pc activities in my basement
reloading room
Hit em'hard
hit em'often
I do all my casting in the barn tack/reloading room,near window, with fan into barn. Horses don’t complain any, about PC smelling bad.
I used Smokes JD Green.. and did 3 batches back to back of about 180 45ACP in each schwack.. Did it in the laundry room with the window cracked, and not really bad at all.
Maybe he has it on a rheostat. Maybe the price was right. Usually you can get a furnace fan for free.
I have squirrel cage fan from a furnace blowing down the space in front of my casting/coating bench to keep things tolerable in the summer.
For casting and coating I have a kitchen vent fan with a inline booster fan venting the fumes out of the garage so I can cast and coat year round.
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