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Sometimes you want to use high heat paint on parts from your projects and to cure it properly it should be baked on. Now there's a smell given off from this so what I've done in the past and today is I'll take an old halogen table top oven, place it in the garage and use that to bake the paint. There's a
piece of parchment paper on the wire racks so the base plate I painted won't stick. Follow the directions on the paint, and the first heating I use is 300
 degrees for an hour, cool for an hour. Second one is just under 400 for an hour and then cool for hour or until you can handle it. The parchment paper I had is safe to 420 but I'm not going to push it. These halogen oven's are on Ebay and used ones can be had as cheap as $25,
sometimes with free shipping. I've been doing this for years and not really felt any ill effects. Daaaa, 

I have never heard of or seen such an oven... I use a toaster oven for the same thing. I went with a convection oven to avoid any hot spots that may ruin the paint job.

They have a fan that circulates the heat, take out the rack and make soup in it and it stirs itself. It has a 12 qt. glass bowl, fan and heat are in the lid.
Like a New Wave Oven only a glass bowl instead of a plastic dome. Stainless expander rings are extra. For the price I got 3, one in both places for
 cooking and that one in the garage.

Sometimes you want to use high heat paint on parts from your projects and to cure it properly it should be baked on. Now there's a smell given off from this so what I've done in the past and today is I'll take an old halogen table top oven, place it in the garage and use that to bake the paint. There's a
piece of parchment paper on the wire racks so the base plate I painted won't stick. Follow the directions on the paint, and the first heating I use is 300
 degrees for an hour, cool for an hour. Second one is just under 400 for an hour and then cool for hour or until you can handle it. The parchment paper I had is safe to 420 but I'm not going to push it. These halogen oven's are on Ebay and used ones can be had as cheap as $25,

I have never heard of or seen such an oven... I use a toaster oven for the same thing. I went with a convection oven to avoid any hot spots that may ruin the paint job.

Nick, would you use the same times and temps in the toaster oven. Plus heat it 2 times in the oven.

Honestly, it's been so long since I have painted anything that I don't even remember what times or temperatures I used...

A couple of times I had to use the big oven because the parts wouldn't fit this one. I was using VHT Header Paint, 1300 -2000*. They recommend
Bake at 250-30 minutes, cool for 30,  Bake at 400- 30 minutes, cool for 30, and 600-30 minutes, cool for 30. Then put the headers on and cycle the heat some more using your engine. The information on the steps and temps are on the can. I think grill paint is a little different.
Lucky for me when I used the big oven to hit the 600* mark it was nice out and the windows were open. The Halogen doesn't get over 480*.

Great tips on baking on paint.

I haven’t painted much as I generally keep my toys in original condition.

But, I have a few in the project closet that are beyond saving.

So, I may have an opportunity to experiment with these techniques.

Thanks for an informative thread. 🤠