DIY painting of 'range style' cooker doors anyone?

Emuchops

Has anyone done this? I have a 'Rangemaster' cooker with dark green doors. I really want to change the colour but don't want to take them off, or send them for powder coating (I live in the middle of nowhere and there isn't anyone close who does this anyway) or spend cash on getting whole new replacement doors, so, spurred on by my success in painting my kitchen cabinets, I wondered how feasible it is to paint the doors. They don't get hot at all when the oven is on, but I'm guessing I'd still need some sort of speciality paint.
Anyone already done it and lived to tell the tale?
Thanks in advance.
Dawn

muckybutt

If you were to go down that route then a good rub down with wet and dry paper and a degreaser, then coat with a good high temp stove enamel paint.

cattie

Rather than using a brush to paint, if you can get hold of some, a suitable spray paint for high temperature items will give you a much more professional finish.

Nikkisun

I looked into this a few months ago as I have a blue Rangemaster that I want to turn black.

The problem I found was that 'heat resistance' paints have to be cured to set them and I have no way of baking my oven doors.

Gloomendoom

Nikkisun wrote: »

The problem I found was that 'heat resistance' paints have to be cured to set them and I have no way of baking my oven doors.

Those are normally only for very high temperature applications like exhausts. I have used ordinary acrylic car spray paint to paint other bits of car engines and they stand up to the heat well without discolouring or flaking. If you are painting over existing paint, you need to check that it is compatible with the new paint... otherwise you can get some interesting textured effects.