Custom Tactical Innovations is proud to offer custom cerakote for your firearms.  Cerakote is an amazing product that offers many benefits and allows to to customize your firearm in many ways at the same time. There are many steps you most do when cerakoting from all the steps when prepping your firearm, to the many steps spraying and post spraying. Today we are gonna talk a little bit about a step that occurs right after you spray your part with cerakote that is as important as any step, but gets overlooked at times. It is the the step we call tacking out.  Tacking out or the the technical term is ambient cure is a simple step but can not be overlooked, it is simply letting your part hang at room temperature for 15 minutes after spraying.  15 minutes is kind of a universal time but always check after the 15 minutes you want it to look some what dry if the part still looks very wet simply let it hang for 5-10 more minutes before putting in the oven for final cure.  This tacking step, or ambient cure is very important because it allows the solvent in the cerakote to evaporate, so you end up with the proper cure.  If this step is not done correctly the solvent gets trapped under the cerakote and then the cerakote doesn't cure right, your finish will have a bubbled look after curing in the oven.  It can look like orange peel at times, which also occurs when spraying to heavy.  When tacked out correct you will get a good smooth finish that should be very durable.