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Paint For Inside Microwave Oven Jeff Wisnia 04-18-2008
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Posted by Jeff Wisnia on April 18, 2008, 10:36 am

Our kitchen's GE microwave oven is still working fine, but the white
paint on the oven floor is cracked and peeling off where the rollers on
the round three wheeled carriage under the rotating glass dish have been
rolling over it for a few years now.

The bare steel is exposed and getting slightly rusted and the peeling
paint trail is widening. Its appearance mildly annoys me every time I
see it.

Anone know what paint(s) are suitable for brushing over the worn area to
improve appearances? Perhaps one of those little brush top bottles of
white appliance touch up paint would do the trick.

I'm thinking that because the paint is right up against a metal surface
it probably can't absorb much of the microwave energy and get heated anyway.

Thanks guys,

Jeff
--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.


Posted by Smitty Two on April 18, 2008, 11:12 am

> Our kitchen's GE microwave oven is still working fine, but the white
> paint on the oven floor is cracked and peeling off where the rollers on
> the round three wheeled carriage under the rotating glass dish have been
> rolling over it for a few years now.
>
> The bare steel is exposed and getting slightly rusted and the peeling
> paint trail is widening. Its appearance mildly annoys me every time I
> see it.
>
> Anone know what paint(s) are suitable for brushing over the worn area to
> improve appearances? Perhaps one of those little brush top bottles of
> white appliance touch up paint would do the trick.
>
> I'm thinking that because the paint is right up against a metal surface
> it probably can't absorb much of the microwave energy and get heated anyway.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Jeff

I'd say if the OEMs coating (powder coating? baked on enamel?) there's
not much chance you'll be successful fixing it for any length of time.
If it weren't for those wheels, maybe. A mag-lev rotary table conversion
kit might help.

Posted by HeyBub on April 18, 2008, 12:03 pm
Jeff Wisnia wrote:
> Our kitchen's GE microwave oven is still working fine, but the white
> paint on the oven floor is cracked and peeling off where the rollers
> on the round three wheeled carriage under the rotating glass dish have
> been rolling over it for a few years now.
>
> The bare steel is exposed and getting slightly rusted and the peeling
> paint trail is widening. Its appearance mildly annoys me every time I
> see it.
>
> Anone know what paint(s) are suitable for brushing over the worn area
> to improve appearances? Perhaps one of those little brush top bottles
> of white appliance touch up paint would do the trick.
>

White touch-up appliance paint should work. You might try lubricating the
wheels with just a touch of powdered Teflon to minimize future wear.



Posted by Pete C. on April 18, 2008, 12:44 pm

Jeff Wisnia wrote:
>
> Our kitchen's GE microwave oven is still working fine, but the white
> paint on the oven floor is cracked and peeling off where the rollers on
> the round three wheeled carriage under the rotating glass dish have been
> rolling over it for a few years now.
>
> The bare steel is exposed and getting slightly rusted and the peeling
> paint trail is widening. Its appearance mildly annoys me every time I
> see it.
>
> Anone know what paint(s) are suitable for brushing over the worn area to
> improve appearances? Perhaps one of those little brush top bottles of
> white appliance touch up paint would do the trick.
>
> I'm thinking that because the paint is right up against a metal surface
> it probably can't absorb much of the microwave energy and get heated anyway.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Jeff
> --
> Jeffry Wisnia
> (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
> The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.

Skip the paint and get some thin UHMW poly sheet to cut a ring of and
glue down as a track for the rollers.

Posted by Jeff Wisnia on April 18, 2008, 3:01 pm
Pete C. wrote:

> Jeff Wisnia wrote:
>
>>Our kitchen's GE microwave oven is still working fine, but the white
>>paint on the oven floor is cracked and peeling off where the rollers on
>>the round three wheeled carriage under the rotating glass dish have been
>>rolling over it for a few years now.
>>
>>The bare steel is exposed and getting slightly rusted and the peeling
>>paint trail is widening. Its appearance mildly annoys me every time I
>>see it.
>>
>>Anone know what paint(s) are suitable for brushing over the worn area to
>>improve appearances? Perhaps one of those little brush top bottles of
>>white appliance touch up paint would do the trick.
>>
>>I'm thinking that because the paint is right up against a metal surface
>>it probably can't absorb much of the microwave energy and get heated anyway.
>>
>>Thanks guys,
>>
>>Jeff
>>--
>>Jeffry Wisnia
>>(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
>>The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.
>
>
> Skip the paint and get some thin UHMW poly sheet to cut a ring of and
> glue down as a track for the rollers.


Thanks. That was the first thing I'd thought of, but the "track" is
depressed into the oven bottom and has sloping sides, which are also
missing some paint now, but maybe a ring of poly sheet as you siggest
will take care of the flat surface the wheels roll on and some white
paint will replace what's flaked off the sloping sides.

I think I'll try that..

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.


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