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Always use a second thermometer inside the oven. Then you know the temp. Use that temp, whatever it says and adjust your knob from there. If you are running low, just lengthen your oven time. if you are running hot, shorten it. Also, I leave my parts in the oven until they are cool to room temp. I just open the door about 1/2 way and come back in an hour. I don't want to move them or take a chance on dropping them while they are still fragile. I've done it before, and if you've tried to sandblast powder coating off, you'll know why I take some extra time to be sure it's set. That stuff doesn't want to come off.
Keep us informed. I'm sure there are lots of guys out there that are interested to hear how things are going. When you post what you did wrong, it makes the learning curve for the next guy that much shorter. Also allows us to see different ways of doing things that might or might not work better than what we are doing now.
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