Question about baking pipes in oven

[Holiday]

Gonna bake my high-temp painted header pipes and collector. Can I put them on the oven racks or will that leave marks? I can pull them out to bake the collector but the pipes need top rest on something.

Cheers

 

[Mortikan]

well a few tricks people have used that I know of. if your part is small enough and you have the angle you can use a wire hanger put the oven rack to it's highest slot and let the pipe hang below.
second thing I have seen work is get some metal flashing or corner bead and use it. with the angle up you have least amount of metal touching metal.
now there was a thread somewhere I think it might have been here. a while ago about getting a roll of flashing and making your own oven to use with a paint stripping/heat gun.


hope something helps

cheers

 

[Tim]

Maybe give your local paint shop or powdercoater a call and see if they'll pop your pipes in with a batch of cooking.

I just baked my new headers in my BBQ, but that was for Kreem Blue Shield internal coating, so I didn't have the concern about marking the outside. Just laid tin foil on my dirty grills and set it to 175 degrees to bake the ceramic coating.

 

[Holiday]

Alternatively and much simpler my other option is to bake'm on the bike. The can says run for 20 minutes, cool down and then repeat. Anyone done this?

 

[hillsy]

Alternatively and much simpler my other option is to bake'm on the bike. The can says run for 20 minutes, cool down and then repeat. Anyone done this?

That works fine - only problem is marking / scratching the paint whilst you're trying to fit them

I used a butane blowtorch to cure a painted 4-1 on my old GSX750 - hung it outside, painted it, torched it. Worked a treat