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Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

yea, maybe you are right But we got you thinking huh?
Ken

Yes, but you realize I have to nap for a while after doing that, don't you??

Don

Don,
Here's my plastic single use booth. It's gone now, but for about $50 plus another $120 for the fan, you too can have your own paint booth.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...=29683&page=14

I have better photos but they're on my other computer's hard drive - maybe tomorrow I'll post 'em

Come on Guy's we know Don doesn't have the talent to do that (way to make his head swell)...........LOL. All you have to do is look at the pink frame....LOL
Sorry Don had to do it............LOL
BradC

On my finances, there's no question about who is going to paint my cars; paying someone else to paint my stuff is out of the question (unless I pay the neighborhood kids to do it with house paint and a brush). My paint booth is my garage. I just cover up the stuff I don't want dusted with overspray, wet the floor, and go to it. Here's a pic of my coupe when I was painting it 3 years ago. If you look close in the lower left, you can see one of the fans under the garage door (I use 2). Bugs usually aren't a problem if you do your spraying during daylight. At night they are attracted to the lights in the garage.

I just did some priming today out in the garage. I will be painting it there too, same way Jim suggested. I have found that if you get at it early in the morning on days like today when it`s nice and cool before the heat and humidity hits then it works out . But the bugs were killing me tonight!

You got my vote of confidence Don!!

....and another showing my "pro level" booth



....and the filter system



....and the fan. I needed to add a baffle to redirect the air out flow:



As far as overspray on the floor, I misted everything with water to hold any errant dust down and had very little in my paint, most of which probably came off my shoot suit or mask.

Oh yeah, I also have a nice fresh air breathing system that I'll be selling soon - and you really need that with many paints - like epoxy and clears.

Spray guns - lots of good ones, but my favorite - an Iwata LPH 400, low pressure and air consumption which means little overspray. Don't use the Harbor Freight 'purple' gun unless you like the surrounding area the same color you are painting

hey them booth s work good i painted many cars in booth like that . i have painted many cars . the shops i work at over the years never few had a pro booth .alot of them were just dry wall clean rooms with filters in one end and a fan in the other.how you prep of the parts and you the air hose is were you see alot of the dirt as well as to much air movement junk out of the gun is a big deal to having a clean out side of the gun to i had a old tack rag i wipe the first 3 feet of the air hose and cleaned the cup evey time i fiiled it with paint. i painted cars planes boat trucks etc in every place you can think of alot of them came out very good first off it to be dust free in all joints and seam s the day before i would wash them if i could and blow them dry wash the room out pull the car in tape off before paint wet the floor pre clean the car tack off ever thing and go to it

Looks like we're "braggin' up" our home paint boothes. Here's my heated (when the sun shines here, both days per year) "booth". Air flow is pretty good though.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Looks like we're "braggin' up" our home paint boothes. Here's my heated (when the sun shines here, both days per year) "booth". Air flow is pretty good though.

I actually have a small parts "booth" as well under the back porch where I park my tractor that is quite similar. I share it with a couple of blue jays, a nesting robin family, a flock of goldfinches and 2 chipmunks that tend to cuss me out when I paint there I was able to chase the white striped pussy cat away though.

Don,
I once made a spray booth in my garage out of some heavy tarps from a Army surplus store and some house filterers from the furnace and a fan that pulled the air threw the filterers. It kept all the bugs out and by wetting down the tarps and floor I got very little dust. When I didn't need it I just folded it up and put it outside in a storage shed. Just a thought.
Ken


IC2- Sorry I didn't see your post.
Brain Dead

Since we've deviated to the home paint booth, and I'm still on the fence about trying to paint the truck myself, Have any of you used a portable car canopy to use as a paint booth? My problem is the truck leaves about 6 inches room in front and back when parked in the garage making it very difficult to get around it not to mention no clearance on the driver's side. So I was thinkng of using one of those outdoor portable garages to have more space to move around I'm just not sure how much room on each side I would need. For that matter I could build a frame out of scrap wood and use visquene plastic for the sides. My biggest worry is actually how to spray the paint, how much to use and the whole process of sanding and buffing. I wish there was a paint for dummies book for cars!

Originally Posted by stovens

Since we've deviated to the home paint booth, and I'm still on the fence about trying to paint the truck myself, Have any of you used a portable car canopy to use as a paint booth? My problem is the truck leaves about 6 inches room in front and back when parked in the garage making it very difficult to get around it not to mention no clearance on the driver's side. So I was thinkng of using one of those outdoor portable garages to have more space to move around I'm just not sure how much room on each side I would need. For that matter I could build a frame out of scrap wood and use visquene plastic for the sides. My biggest worry is actually how to spray the paint, how much to use and the whole process of sanding and buffing. I wish there was a paint for dummies book for cars!

Steve - you need at least 3 and better 5-6 feet all the way around a vehicle to be able to walk and operate the gun successfully while attached to an unyielding air hose while you are dressed in a shoot suit and at a minimum wearing a carbon filter mask. Can you get by with less, yep, and some will say that they did, but what did the paint look like?

As far as building an outside booth, with wood and poly plastic - works fine, but it does have to be strong enough to withstand any wind lifting or ballooning the sides and kicking the dust off and keep out any breeze blown crud.

Books for "dummies" - there are a couple of pretty good ones. I'll see if I can round up my favorites and take a picture and forward later.

It really isn't difficult, just requires patience and GOOD materials. I have my preferences, as do many others and for sure am no more then an amateur painter. I tried low end sand paper, now only Norton(fave) or 3M. Epoxy primer, SPI(fave) or DuPont/PPG. Filler - only Evercoat Rage or Rage Gold. Base coat, DuPont (fave) or PPG/HOK/Sherwin Williams. Clear coat, SPI or DuPont also the others listed for base Spray gun, Iwata (fave) also Sata/DeVillbiss and others and so on. You develop a preference to what works for you, not necessarily what someone suggests. Regardless, pro level paint IS NOT cheap. Mine is listed for ~$650+/gallon and I needed 7 quarts (I have about 1.5 left to paint my hood side panels) plus reducers. Regardless, I still figured I saved over $12K by doing it myself even after buying everything.

When I worked at the body shop a few years ago, we had an excellent downdraft spray booth, but we still got tons of dirt in the paint jobs. Our detail girl would wet sand and buff them out and saved the painters tails a bunch of times. I have lost track of her, but would like to get her to buff out Dan's RPU when we do have it painted, she was topnotch.

As for home spray booths, here is mine. I have no idea why I get a bug in there occasionally.

Don

Don

here is my old booth at my shop i painted alot of cars and trucks in it and a 1000 indy rim as well as other rims my gtos were painted in this both you can see my small fan by the wall i did not get very much dirt here at my shop, but one the two shops i work at we allways did get some dirt every thing was a cut and buff .there was a time i was painting cars and planes out of 3 shops oh yes the good old days

I find having the right temp is one of the most important things. for flake work i found that natural air drying to be better than force drying as it allows the flake to drop.

I line my workshop with thin plastic which is sold here under the name of Polymask, its sided and is marked this side out, paint sticks to it and never comes off, Its almost transparent so can be put in front of the lights so keeping them clean.
I use a heavier plastic on the floor and every edge is stuck down with masking tape, takes a while to do but well worth it, heres a pic