Product thumbs up - Stove Bright Paint

[SilentButDeadly]

Time to give a bit of a product thumbs up....let's face it we hear too much about stuff that doesn't work and never enough about stuff that does.

Today's little thumbs up goes to Stove Bright Paint. It is a spray pack of heat resistant paint for combustion stoves. If your combustion stove is looking a bit average and dated then you could do a whole lot worse.

We just moved and refinished our early 80's Masport Panorama. It was cholate brown with fake brass trim - most unattractive. It is now a fetching shade of charcoal. This took two tins of the paint, which at $28 per tin, isn't cheap but it's still way cheaper than reenamelling!

Finshed up looking very schmick. New fire tape in the door glass and door seal and a new door handle helped too.

Downsides? Hell yeah!!
First is the product information - like all US sourced paint products, the manufacturers fill most of the label with info about how the product can potentially maim or kill you....there's pfaff all about how to use it. Go to the website http://www.forrestpaint.com/SB-paintgroup.html for much more useful information than what is on the tin.

Second and possibly MOST important (and another thing not well detailed on the label) is the fact that this product outgasses something fierce as part of its curing process. It dries to touch when you apply it and then it cures when subjected to heat. This curing process means it emitts what can only be described as one hellava smell for some time. Having read about it on the net we tried to circumvent this by curing outside but we couldn't get the box hot enough for long enough with only a metre of flue in place......when we bought it inside and re-fitted it....it really began to cook off. In the end, the only way was to fire it up on Sunday morning, open all the windows, turn un the fans and cook away. In the end I think it took about 12 hours of cooking for the smell to dissapate.

Despite this little 'quirk'.......the result speaks for itself. To all intensive purposes.........we have a new combustion stove!!

[NCArcher]

Photo of the finished product please SBD

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.........minor problem. Camera has taken itself away. So patience is required!

[NCArcher]

Waiting patiently.........




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