Nick the dehydrator is vented at the top and I have the temp adjusted to 110 degrees, the exposed element is barely warm. The emblem is so small it doesn't matter. The model car bodies I bake have 10 times the surface and paint on them. This is an everyday practice in model building and I have never heard of an explosion. I been doing this for over 8 years. I use it to speed up the drying of paint on small parts for my real car. The metal Hornet fender emblems were barely warm. I some times bake 3 model car bodies at a time for 3 day's straight. I just did the blue for the R/W/B emblem insert and it is baking now. Tomorrow it gets the red and the day after the clear. Force drying is needed when using enamel to speed things up. "Doc" _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wps.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com