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Can you repaint a wood stove.
Heat your wood stove to a temperature of 250 degrees f 121 degrees c for 20 minutes.
How to do it yourself instructional video on repainting stoves and other appliances.
Stoves are generally painted once at the factory.
Use the heat from your stove to cure the paint.
Use paint thinner to clean drips.
The first and most crucial step to painting your wood stove or fireplace is surface preparation.
Then using the blue painter s tape tape around the feet of the stove and handles.
You can apply stove paint with a paint sprayer.
Stove paint will only adhere as well as whatever is already on the stove so all rust and all coating that is peeling or blistering will need to be removed before applying the paint.
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Dealers will often customize the stove to another color.
Problems arise when in repainting the stove or in changing again to a third color the total paint film thickness gets too thick.
Turn the heat off and allow the stove to cool.
After you have removed as much rust as you can wet a rag with paint thinner and go over the entire stove surface.
In each normal painting of the stove about 9 mils of dry paint are applied.
You can use vinegar as a rust converter.
Let any remnants of paint thinner dry.
Curing occurs when you heat your stove to seal the silicone resin in the paint which is what contains heat resistant properties.
This will remove any remaining rust and in addition dirt and grim that could muddle your painting.