DIY Paint Shop Ideas

[sarca]

A friend of mine owns a muffler shop - they were going halfsies on adding a paint shop and bought all the equipment for painting vehicles. The deal fell through, they have offered to let me s rent the equipment to paint the 40...but Ive got no where to paint it...any ideas? Ive heard tale of building temporary plastic wrap tents around the vehicle .. anyone ever done this? Or does anyone have an extra garage hanging around?

Im wondering about the feasibility and/or interest of whether or not 'we' could rent the equipment for a weekend and have a club paint-a-thon?? (Yep, I make up my own words)

Ideas or suggestions?

 

[krzyabncanuck]

A friend of mine owns a muffler shop - they were going halfsies on adding a paint shop and bought all the equipment for painting vehicles. The deal fell through, they have offered to let me s rent the equipment to paint the 40...but Ive got no where to paint it...any ideas? Ive heard tale of building temporary plastic wrap tents around the vehicle .. anyone ever done this? Or does anyone have an extra garage hanging around?

Im wondering about the feasibility and/or interest of whether or not 'we' could rent the equipment for a weekend and have a club paint-a-thon?? (Yep, I make up my own words)

Ideas or suggestions?

I painted my 45 inside of a hanging plastic garage hung from the ceiling. Now adays you could get one of them garage in a box from Tractor or Northern.

 

[mtweller]

I did mine in the open air of my driveway... and it shows. If you do a real tent, please please wear a full on respirator and suit, or at least a good mask and frame in a filtered inlet with a fan and an outlet of some sort.

R

 

[sarca]

I did mine in the open air of my driveway... and it shows. If you do a real tent, please please wear a full on respirator and suit, or at least a good mask and frame in a filtered inlet with a fan and an outlet of some sort.

R

No doubt..I got a very good respirator when I started lining the undercarriage - I probably killed a few thousand brain cells using a regular face mask on rust inhibitor before that..

I also heard before you start, you should spray water on the floor to keep the dust/air particles down too.

Might do a real tent. I mean, if Walt can cook meth in an RV - I can spray a 40 in my driveway..ha ha

 

[GarnerFJ40]

No doubt..I got a very good respirator when I started lining the undercarriage - I probably killed a few thousand brain cells using a regular face mask on rust inhibitor before that..

I also heard before you start, you should spray water on the floor to keep the dust/air particles down too.

Might do a real tent. I mean, if Walt can cook meth in an RV - I can spray a 40 in my driveway..ha ha

The key to meth is making sure it's in a complete vacumn. Most problems occur when you lose vacumn using ether becuase it's heavier than air, builds up, and a light switch can ignite it...

 

[sarca]

The key to meth is making sure it's in a complete vacumn. Most problems occur when you lose vacumn using ether becuase it's heavier than air, builds up, and a light switch can ignite it...

hey hey hey - excuse me sir - but I think your vast knowledge belongs on the www.idonth8meth.com forum

 

[angerhater]

i would recommend the wet floor treatment,or just put a tarp under it all and tape it to the walls...so you dont suck in anything... a vented tent is best, cause much of the floating overspray will eventually end up in the paint while its curing...but can be buffed ......finding a shielded motor on the fan may be costly, and definitely use good prefilters and filters to catch the overspray.....

 

[NCFJ]

I painted my Jeep when I lived in the Fl Keys using a plastic "booth" It was under a stilt house on a pea gravel floor. I put plastic on the ceiling above and dropped 4 walls. I wet the ground well too. I used a box fan with a couple 20" x 20" furnace fans for incoming air and just let that air presurize the booth and escape naturally.

I use a Survive Air system that has it's own pump and pumps air direct to the mask. Nice thing about that system is that any gaps between mask and your face allow air to escape rather than dirty air to come in.

I did a two stage job with several coats of clear and it came out great. So great that others were wanting me to paint their vehicles, not interested. Take your time and do all the prep work.

 

[krzyabncanuck]

Clear can be a real pain.