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Drying booth experiment

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    October 2013
Posted by infofrog on Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:23 PM

When I built mine . This was a few weeks ago . i have it adjusted it for 90 degrees . I did not want anymore heat . I was scared of warping .

Works great

Rick

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/tools_techniques_and_reference_materials/f/18/t/168338.aspx

 

  • Member since
    August 2007
  • From: back country of SO-CAL, at the birth place of Naval Aviation
Posted by DUSTER on Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:31 PM

Thank you for the follow through. The more data the better the resultsYes

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

  • Member since
    October 2015
Drying booth experiment
Posted by Comanche pilot on Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:46 AM

I read about Don's drying booth. Then I had the idea of using a food dryer, the kind that makes jerky as I have one already.

The first problem was that the lid is very shallow so there wasn't room between the trays and the lid for the model. My test subject is a 1/48 Grumman Bearcat. I found a round cake storage bin from Tupperware in our stuff and the lid fit almost perfectly.

The second concern that was a problem as Don had guessed was temperature. Although it did not get too hot so as to distort the plastic it did tend to make the model slightly stick to the drying tray and blemish the paint. Temperature got to 140F. I moved the lid off center to vent and it was still just a bit hotter than seemed optimum. I removed the lid completely and recorded temps of 110F which seemed perfect and quickly dried the paints to a hard finish in 4-6 hours. 

Now I'll go learn how to post pics and get right back. 

 

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