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Always thought those infrared paint curing systems were a waste of money for a small shop
My buddy at the shop in Akron swore by his, but I figured my old heat lamps were fine. Then we had a rush job on a black metallic door that needed to go out same day, and he let me use his. The panel was ready for wet sanding in 20 minutes, not 3 hours. How many of you have made the switch and was it worth the upfront cost?
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rose_cooper3h agoMost Upvoted
Hold up, you were still wet sanding after three hours with heat lamps? That's way too long. A good IR system should cut that down to maybe an hour, tops, for a full cure on most jobs. If your lamps were taking three hours just to get to sanding, they were probably just drying the paint, not fully curing it. That's a big difference in quality and why the IR felt like such a jump. The cost is about speed and a better finish, not just a little faster dry time.
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