Baking on enamel paint.

[SketchMaster]

I'm repainting my paint ball gun since my last paint job started to chip pretty bad and I remember my brother once told me to bake on the paint to get a harder cure and improve the durability of the paint. While trying to find directions on how to do it I kept coming across people saying that it doesn't do any good to bake unless the paint was made for it, can anyone say with 100% certainty if this is true or not?

If it really does help, can someone tell me at what temperature and for how long I bake the paint?

Thanks.

 

[Howard]

Are you priming it?

 

[Triumph]

Are you painting metal or plastic? I don't know what paint guns are made of. I painted my motorcycle with acrylic enamel, read up on alot of painting information for both metal and plastic, but never came across anything that said to try baking the paint afterwards. There are things you can do to plastic to make it adhere better, but that's because plastic is pliable. This is all for acrylic enamels though, straight up enamels I'm not sure about. Can you buy acrylic enamel in a spray can?

We have a paint booth in the shop at work with professionals working there, whenever I'm getting something baked, it is either a: because it is powdercoated and that's how it hardens or b: they're just speeding up the drying time. I don't think it would do you much good if the paint isn't designed for it.