Building an Oven...

hmmm.. interesting marbo man....

what are the dimensions of that box?

 

The salamander sat out in front of the truck box and was joined low with 8 inch steel duct. At the far end was a flue operated vent in the roof. By controlling the propane and the flue you could adjust to any temp needed.

It worked well for electro static powder coating, and for post cure of parts.

When completed it was mounted on a flat bed truck and provides mobile powder coating on the customers site. No freight to and from of parts, and more important, no tedious packing and wraping to prevent damage of coating.

Operator simply backs up,,,,coats and cures parts, hands back to customer and then, most important, hands customer printed invoice from laptop!

Now, if they would only pay more promptly,,,,,,,,,,in these times I should be happy with 60 to 90 days

 

Hi Marbo, isn't credit one of the factors that created these times, maybe you can offer an attractive prompt payment discount. The portable powdercoating sounds like a great scheme, I drove a truck for a month carting powder coated gates etc & the packing & tiedown used to cost some time & trouble! All the best from Jeff.

 

what are the dimensions of that box?

The duct board is shipped flat and with a V cutter and any sttraight edge can make a duct , box , whatever by simply folding on your V cut line.

Special aluminum tape holds anything you create together.

DOES NOT take curves well.

FF

 

As walls, anything insulated is usable. I have seen impromptu ovens made from plastic sheet hanging from the ceiling. There is also the thin steel panels, sandwiched by PU foam. They work like a charm.

Try and insulate the floor as well, it is surprising how much heat is wasted through the floor.

For those of you in the UK, contact a company called "Andrews". Their slogan is "heat for hire", so I guess they know what they are doing... Here in NL they also rent out big heaters.

And run a few fans, so the heat gets distributed as evenly as possible.

 

one way you can do it is to build a box from foam insulation, put in electric heat strips, thermocouples positioned well for temp, and circulating fans that are no spark fans. works well for small projects says a friend of mine who has built them. told me to do that if i want to go pre-preg with a wakeboard.