Heating crankcases

[Russ]

Various posts on this forum have referred to using the wife's oven to heat crankcases for removing bushes.
How is this done?  IE, for how long and at what tempeture.
Russ

[muskrat]

G'day Russ,
                   200C for30 minutes works for me. Use a bolt and washers through any that you don't want to replace to stop them falling out. When fitting new ones heat again to 200C and put bush in freezer for 30 minutes. It will fall in, just make sure oil holes line up.
 Just don't put it down on the bench top !!
Cheers

[Brian]

I would have thought the most important thing here is to make sure the wife doesnt come home before you have finished, its cold sleeping out in the shed at nights. 

[muskrat]

Ha, but I do most of the cooking !

[Russ]

Thanks Guys.
To be honest, I wasn't sure if you guys were serious or just having a lend of me.
I will give it a go.

Cheers Russ

[A10Boy]

You could always give them a good clean in the dishwasher before you put them in the oven, I find it stops the oven smelling of hot oil and giving the game away. After a couple of washes, the dishwasher hardly smells of petrol at all.

[bsa-bill]

These halogen ovens are brilliant, would hold a crankcase half and they're portable (take down to shed) cost around fifty UK£, so much cheaper than divorce.

[bsarider]

Could you use the over for powder coating or has that already been done on a previous post. Alan

[A10Boy]

Your question interested me, and not knowing much about powder coatings, I had a quck google on the subject.

Wiki states that most coatings cure @200 degrees C in 10 minutes, and mentions infra red ovens, it looks like the complex bit is getting the right static charge unless you have the right gun.