what temperature and how long do you guys bake your jigs after powder coating?

Every powder coat is different. Even colors within the same "brand" are different. 

With that being said, you are usually safe at 350 for 20 minutes if your powder has no instructions. Paint a junk jig or lead weight and cure it. When its done toss it on the concrete, if it chips you need longer cure. If it dents you got it! 

With my $2 garage sale toaster oven, I have found that 15-20 minutes set on 350° is good.  White and chartreuse no more than 15.

I bake mine at 350 for 20 minutes but like the above posts times and ovens differ. White is the only color that gives me a problem to where I have to follow the instructions and put a thermometer in the oven. My oven is a $15 model from Ollie's discount store and the temps are off by at least 25 degrees so I just wing it. I have been powder painting jigs for almost a decade in this oven and have not had a problem with chipping and I fish a lot of jigs. Certain colors are a PITA and pearl white has been that way for me.

 

Allen

The instructions on my paint says 350 for 25 minutes......toaster oven for that use only......

How do you tell if the jig is cured short of throwing it on the garage floor. Is there a visual way of checking. Also, if they dont go long enough, can they put back in after they cool?

Well, apparently you can't cure them for too long. I Accidentally left a batch in the toaster oven and fell asleep. THey baked overnight and looked fine. It was either GP or copper vein from Columbia. I don't remember which but they were football heads.

On 4/18/2017 at 8:02 PM, Bdnoble84 said:

How do you tell if the jig is cured short of throwing it on the garage floor. Is there a visual way of checking. Also, if they dont go long enough, can they put back in after they cool?

 

There is no visual way of knowing if the jigs are baked long enough, short of taking them to a lab for hardness testing. With that said any of the methods and times of baking are fine as mentioned above. Like Dave A mentioned you can bake jigs for 30 hours and they would still be fine. The reason times are given is those are recommended minimum times, for the powder molecules to cross link and harden.

     Yes you can take jigs that have cooled and bake them again with no harm to the paint .  I do that many times when I want to add 3 or 4 colors.