Well, my fault and I don't deny it. I pulled the thermometer to the front without picking it up. However, should the paint really scratch so easily and be so thin. I hate to think what the stove top will look like once i start cooking on it. Is this normal or did we get a badly painted stove?
The paint is soft before you have cured it with a few fires, and it is VERY soft during the first curing burn.
Sure wished i had known that. The good old "common sense" that's not so common. Does that mean i have to buy high temp paint and paint the top?
Those magnets are sometimes between two pieces of metal with sharp corners. Dragging them will scratch the paint ...ouch!
Yup, lesson learned. Can't make up my mind if i want to paint it before installing or not. I have a feeling it won't stay pristine very long being used for cooking.
Do any touch up AFTER you install because it is really easy to add more scratches. Once in place, touch up the scratches and do your cure burns before cooking on it. The paint will be much more durable after it gassed off. If you know which paint the manufacturer used, black can be touched up without the need for a full repaint.
Yeah that's the nice thing about stove paint, you can touch it up and after a few fires you really can't tell...
The paint gets so soft on the first burn that it gets sticky. I made the mistake of wiping it with a damp rag during the burn, and it left marks. I would leave the scratch, and I suspect it will flow and fill a little on the burn, and fill even more in your imagination, and you will find it fine.
Yes, I think I'll leave it. We didn't get to burn it again today it rained. The good weather maybe over for this winter. The rain is really welcome we've been in a drought for 3 months and under burn ban.
Also, after burning, try "coloring" the scratches with a sharpie. I did that on my stovepipe, and it looked better. Test in a non-conspicuous place first.
Worry not. The new-car smell will soon wear off and it will just be, another appliance... A heat making, clothes drying, food cooking, money saving...appliance
Scratches: they become a thing of the past when you heat and cook and etc on this thing. If you’re worried, I took a scuffer pad that would help get some paint flecks since that haven’t cured yet and it might work by just filling in the scratches. Then you can cure it up. Might help realign the paint... just my two cents but you could try this from an unsuspecting area perhaps on the bottom of the stove? Since the paint is exactly the same you’re likely to get a more consistent result.
Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get sticker glue off the pipes. The idiots had the stickers plastered all over so no way to just hide it in the back. Why don't they just use easy peal off ones.
The paint should harden with some baking. As mentioned above the scratch might heal. We never thought the paint smell was all that bad, but every time the stove got to a new high temp you'd catch another whiff of it. LOL, a baked potato landed and split open and burned on the top of ours and you can't see the stain any more.
