i just coated my edelbrock shorties in my house oven with plasti-kote hi temp paint. when i read the directions the first time, i saw bake in a household oven for 60 minutes on 650*F so i did, and now the house smells horrible, i got fans going and windows open, then i read it again, and it says in a NON household oven. well anyways, is it safe for me to just clean the oven really good or do i have to buy a new oven, and how long till this smell will go away.

 

i'd call whoever made the paint and i'd look at the MSDS.

 

Are you married?

 

If so not for long!

 

Yeah I think its time for a new oven. BTW how did they come out?

 

I dunno about that stuff, but I used DupliColor header paint on mine in my household oven... it stank for a few hours, but went away after I opened a few windows. Worked fine BTW.

 

just use the microwave

 

the headers came out pretty awesome looking, the smell has gone away completely, i called the poison control, and he said he has no clue what is in that paint, or what type of damage it could do, and just to open the windows and turn on fans, i already did that, it took a good 4 hours before it went away, im just still worried about the oven, i think i should be able to clean the inside good with a brush, and some type of cleaner, and the put it on the self clean cycle a few times and it will be ok, but someone told me that i need to buy a new oven, because it baked the paint fumes into the walls of the oven just like it baked it into the headers, which seemed logical to me but i dont want to buy a new oven, not like anyone here uses it anyways

 

when powder coating I use a house over to do my small parts. And you can not use the oven to cook in after you powder something. and powder is a form of paint. so i'd buy a new oven. and coat some other stuff to pay for it.

 

buying a new oven is a last resort, is it possible at all to clean the **** out of the oven to make it safe to cook food in

 

the man i used to work for doing coatings says you can't. But that doesn't mean you can't. Is your oven self cleaning. Where it just gets really really hot and bakes everything out. I would just run it on and off for a couple of days and clean the pi$$ out of it. then cook something for your neighbors or something.

 

Ahhh... the many uses of the household oven. I like to use mine to cure thermal set polymers and epoxies.

Id thoroughly clean the oven by hand and then leave it open for a few days to let all the volatiles from the paint escape.

 

i did the self cleaning thing like 5 times, where it gets really hot, and it smells like a dryer, you know the smell like its cleaning cloths. the old lady doesnt know yet, and i think i want to keep it that way, so i dont want to tell her we need a new oven, and i dont want her asking why i just went out and bought a new oven. are those fumes really baked into the sides of the oven, im pretty sure the oven gets to about 650-700 degrees while it is cleaning, is that enought to burn off all the fumes? for the first time in a while im hoping when i come home she doesnt have dinner ready.

 

Make a run to the store and pick up some TV dinners and cook em up. If they taste okay, then you can consider the problem solved.
If not, feed em to your dog and deal with it tomorrow.

 

i finally found an answer to this, the way to completely clean the oven, is mix 32oz of water and 8oz of vinigar, and put it in a pot and turn the oven on till it starts to boil, and then shut it off and let it sit till it cools, and then repeat one more time.

 

where did you find this out
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honey the headers are done wwill be said in my house soon if that is as easy as it is to get rid of the fumes and bad shiz.

 

i called the maker of the paint i used, plati-kote, and they told me this, i havent had anything cooked around here in a while, so i dont know why i cleaned it. it seems like it worked, it dont smell anymore stuff in the oven, and i also after i did the vinigar/water mix, i used a brush and scrubed it soap and water.

 

hopefully it worked hmm i might think of grabbing an old oven for coating parts

 

got any pics of the headers?

 

not yet, im in the process of installing them, i will get pics on here, when im done with the install

 

This post is funny as hell! From the sounds of it I'd say your oven is pretty freakin clean by this point, nothing to really worry about especially if the maker of the paint told you how to clean it.. FYI when I did my headers I simply coated them and put them on the car about an hour later and ran it for 30 mins or so at idle to cure the paint.. not sure if thats actually a recommended method or not but so far so good a year later..

 

ive been married for 11 years now and i still dont think my wife as understanding as she is with all my cars comming and going and building that she would be okay with me using her oven to bake a set of headers man you are one lucky sob ....lol....hopefully you got it cleaned enough if not just look at it this way you now have a good oven to put out in your garage for bakin some more goodies for your car.......gingerbread emblems here we come..LMAO

 

I can just hear what's going through your wife's head...."What the hell! Homie won't wipe the pee sprinkles off the toilet seat, but all of a sudden he's got that damn oven spotless!! Wonder what he's gone and done now....."

 

amen to that i am thinking of buying a peice of shiz oven just for this purpose but the idear of painting them then running them on your car is a good idea do it then take your car out for a day on the track and walaaa

 

My headers look exactly as delivered, with the factory black paint. Only shinier and smoother