I would like to make my own infared or heated batch oven for curing cabinet doors on a door rack. I want to place it in an 8' wide trailer and take it on site.

Any of you make your own? Any experience with rapidly curing the finish? I know systeams that I can buy. But they are pretty expensive.

Right now with my solvent CV doing doors is a 3 day job....waiting for the cure to be dry enough to flip over and handle....

Thanks for your input!!

infratech makes all different size and configurations of lamps that you could hang or put on a rack inside your trailer

You want to transport doors down the highway on thin steel cantilevered support wires? Could you please put a go pro camera in there for the first trip? I'd love to see a video when the driver has to slam on the brakes!

Thank you Johnathan, I will check it out!

RichC. Yes that sounds pretty sad..!!

No, I want to cure them in their(clients) driveway. That's the whole point of the onsite trailer. I would love to do the doors both sides and rehang them in the same day.....

That's what dreams are made of....

Thank you! Always looking for a better way! Love all of your help.....!

We have many IR heaters.
Infratech makes 110V IR heaters, to find them easily search body shop supplies. They come on a stand, they are not terribly expensive.

To get a large surface area of heat you need 220V, higher amperage, multiple units. That is not a system that would work onsite.

If you are going to set up a large high voltage system call Infratech and deal with them directly. They will baulk because they don't want them to be in a paint booth.

Good luck!

Never had a marking problem with CV. 2 coats on the rear and one on the front, wait overnight and 2nd coat on the front (back-front-back then front).

They have infrared heater panels that go into a ceiling grid system that usually run about 750W each. You could box them to get them closer to your doors. Most CVs don't like more than 110ºF for curing. And you wouldn't put the wet door under the heat. Wait until it fully flashes and then you can heat cure it.

Leo G
Thank you for this response and the many you have made over time.

So very interesting you are spraying the back and then on the same day....they are dry enough to roll over "with out marks" spray the front..then 2nd coat the back....

So how much time does the back cure before you roll do the front? And do use uv lights or heat with fans??

Thank you Leo! This is great information!
After you second coat the the fronts, how long before you reinstall?

Much appreciation

Jim

I wonder what the neighbors will think as you vent the conversion varnish 75' from their front door? Or even closer by their kid's bedroom windows.

There are some hanging systems available. With them you can spray both sides at once and cut the dry time in half and not worry about marks from the drying racks.

I have the same set up
6X12 trailer as my on-site spray booth
When I used CV I would do what Leo G said
CV dries pretty quick
On the other hand if you're talking about precat then I can understand why you would want to speed up cure time!
I now use waterborne and I'm still trying to adjust!