Can you speed up drying paint?

[Victor]

Is it ok to speed up the proccess of drying acrylic and surface primer paint with say a hair dryer? i have a primer coat on already and it has been drying for over 12 hours but it says 24 hours on the instructions lol.

[BigPanzer]

Patience Victor!

I know watching paint dry is not very exciting, but just put it somewhere warm and well ventilated if you can and wait.

Peter

[xrad]

a little solar radiation will assist in the drying process...

[bowlman]

Its 89 out here today im going to paint my replacement Kenny Kong 18 tooth sprockets and let the sun do the work on drying between coats .
O by the way if you have been having problems with Impact 18 tooth sprockets skipping in there tracks the fix is the Kenny Kong 18 tooth sprockets the teeth are not pointy and a little longer after changing to this sprocket my problems went away works great with DT idler system .

Jimmy

[Saxondog]

I have used a hair dryer to dry and flatten out spots in paintwork, the trade of is if you dry to fast or hot flaking will occur. The moving air dries the paint and the heat does as well but the air alone will do a better job without the risk of flaking.

Saxondog