Living in the the Pacific Northwest means that we get about 2 1/2 weeks of decent weather a year, creating some challenging conditions for building hot rods when you have a carport and an unheated 12' X16 "shop". Still, if you wait for perfect conditions its not gonna happen, and it is time to paint the cab parts for the Chevy pickup I'm building with my son. (Build thread here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=564083 ) I threw up some tarps to make a smaller space (easier to heat) and created a kind of white trash paint booth, or as my daughter called it a "murder shack". Then I hung the doors and fuel tank from the rafters and put my little kerosene heater in there for about 2 hours to get the temp up to something that might just work for painting. Sprayed the primer last night, it actually went really well. I was worried about visibility from the overspray, but I was using an HVLP gun and it really wasn't too noticeable. The parts look good, tomorrow I will spray the trim and the door panels white, then Monday the doors and a few other dash parts get a coat of black. Then its time to get the cab finished finally! <p> <p>
A man's gotta do what he's gotta do. I painted a Corvette in much the same situation.Came out actually good but I was using lacquer. Whatever works.
"Necessity is the mother of invention". You always come up with the best solutions when your back is against the wall. I can remember at 15 tears old doing something similar to paint my '29av8 with my mothers vacuum cleaner. Anyone remember the old Electrolux vacuums with the paint spraying attachment? Frank
Did the same thing in the basement of old house I remodeled. I was spraying latex, but the fumes were still bad sometimes. Real bad when I did the trim and doors!
Yeah, I remember those, we had one and I got it handed down to me.Don't know what happened to it though.
In my youth, I pulled a car body off with a maple limb and a tractor it was a 1951 dodge, heavy. Years later it was too cold to paint and I rigged a heated plastic tent over a car I was spraying lacquer on...nearly got wiped out on the fumes, not nice at all. Since then I've painted outside like Don . Having to time it to paint when bugs and birds are not around but rain is worse. it can't miss.
I remember Painting my Brothers Ute in my backyard about 30 years ago in Red Air Dry Enamel and a couple of Hours after I painted it it rained ....The whole car wrinkled up like a bag of old Testicles.....lol....Glad it wasnt my own car lol
Looks like ware i have to paint cars over here in australia ..fucking blue tarp on 3 walls shit loads of bugs a the worst weather i have ever seen in my life .I have about a foot and a half on each side and a short hose that cant even reach to the end of the car ..what a way to work .and i dont think anyone in queensland has painted a car in a long time here bec the bugs come from all over to checjk it out and always so windy i have no idea how they are comeing out good but thank god they are .
Here is my paint booth, borrowed from a friend. Cheap portable garage with some lights hung in it with zip ties and a big plastic tarp on the floor
Damn lobucrod, you are gettin fancy on us again. Ghetto is good for doin it where ya can. Our group is so lucky to have a big ol booth to shoot in a a shop. Rob Lee has a great connection with these folks who are very supportive of our builds. We are very blessed to have such cool friends. Do it where ya can!! ~sololobo~
Painted a Fiero outside once. Turned out nice, decent weather. Silly-ass gnats come in to check it out, hundreds of them and they only landed on the trunklid. I come out later to check on it and they're all stuck in my new white paint. I bet they didn't like being buffed off with their little feet stuck in the paint!
Outdoors here is a bit cold right now from the looks of the icy roads,so that is out of the question up here.
I painted my 56 Chevy in a garage with the door open and just as I got through a wasp landed on my roof and did and Irish jig all in circles. Luckily I was able to wet sand it out.
Hey, a rodders got to do what a rodders got to do. Pays to have friends. Never know when you'll need a favor. That's why I try not to piss anybody off.
ive been collecting lights and afew box fans to set up my "ghetto paint booth" when we finally get around to painting the old truck. same truck and color as yours to! haha, going to hit up the dollar tree when it comes time to do the plastic for the walls.
plastic sheets are part of winterizing my garage. I just sealed off half the shop yesterday so I dont have to heat booth bays. And the ghetto paint booth works great in my garage! This was 2 yrs ago Just about all of this was done in a plastic lined corner of my garage Jeff
Carport with gravel floor wrapped in Visqueen We have panted four cars in the carport. Now its home to our GMC motor home. Motor home is next for paint all 26' of her.
heres mine, the bad news is that it was destroyed in a thunderstorm. ill miss that booth did alot of nice work there!
my dad always likes to recount the story of painting the side of a car he had repaired for a fella back in the mid 60's. did it outside, in the snow, with a tarp draped over the side of the car and a space heater(yes-somehow he survived). I have 2 old box fans with a/c filters taped to them for exhaust whenever I shoot anything in my home garage. the trick is to do it early; before the insects and nosey neighbors are stirring.
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