Like many others, I would like to set up my 2-car garage to spray paint. I'm not talking about shooting the finish coat, but more along the lines of primer sealer and build primer. My goal is to do all the build primer and block sanding myself and have the finish coat shot in a proper paint booth. I have a typical attached 2-car garage with a door leading to the house and a door leading to the back yard and the typical 2-car garage door. So what are the recommendations for proper ventilation? Dust control? Keeping fumes out of the house?
I believe there was an excellent how to post that showed a nice set up in their garage. i think the heading was "shooting a track t in garage" or something. they took precautions against static charge that attracts the debris you don't even see towards your paint. you got a squirell cage fan? **** out that AIR ! and sweep and clean everything, floor, walls, even the ceiling.
I sprayed a firewall about 6 months ago. One of my car guy neighbors stopped by to check out the action. The next thing I know he's headed in to tell my with that I'm loopy from the paint fumes. Damn good question!
I did a similar set up to the thread listed except I made a frame from 1" PVC pipe and covered it with plastic sheeting to make my booth. Attached a squirrel cage blower from a central ac unit to blow into the booth from the far end. The open end of the booth was at the edge of the shop and after pulling the car inside I pulled the garage door down until it sat on a wood frame laying across the floor with four 24" ac filters in it. These filtered the air on the way out and caught a lot of the overspray. I sealed the edges of the booth to the garage door with duct tape. Use good filters on the blower so it does not pull in any trash and since the booth is pressurized any leaks you have will leak air out instead of pulling dirt in. The outlet filters can be the regular fibergl*** cheapies. I also bought several 24" flourescent shop lamps, the cheap ones you can get at home depot etc. and made simple stands for them to stand three on each side of the car and three hung overhead. It is really difficult to paint if you cannot see. Good luck, Steve
Some of the photos toward the end of the post come up red "X's" and I'm not sure why. Tom and I are finally ready to add some more to the post soon. texasolds' set-up is a positive pressure type airflow which is easier to control by having a slightly positive pressure area inside the booth (like modern downdraft booths) and gating the flow out. If you have an attatched garage you have to be careful that you don't have "leaks" back into the house. This is real hazardous on the pet canary-and kids-and it makes the wife quite irritable. Also be real careful if you have close neighbors. Some of the 2 part stuff is very strong smelling for a looooong ways. overspray
Overspray - I liked your post and as to your comment about having leaks into the house, I'm all ears. My wife is as mean as a snake as it is. I'm not saying I couldn't woop her in a fair fight, but she doesn't fight fair. I've used the airline in the bucket of ice trick to condense the water in the airline before but rather then using an airline hose I used a coil of 3/4" copper tubing with 10 loops (with ice water). The old man that showed me this trick said the copper makes for good heat transfer.
Perhaps one of the best things you can do to reduce overspray is to use a HVLP (high volume low pressure) system. I did my whole car including acrylic finish coat in the garage using HVLP and was impressed by the minimal amount of overspray compared with a siphon type gun.
Whatever you do, be sure to use a NOSH-approved respirator. The new paints are very bad news if inhaled, even in small quan***ies.
Make sure you shake the can for 2 minutes after the ball starts makin' noise. Also, test spray til color comes out. Shake every minute until your done. Also, make sure the can is labeled. Some cheap brands just put the color on the cap.
Jason P. from the Road Zombies came over and we prepped and painted my roadster body over a weekend. Pretty spartan operation, but it worked. We hung plastic, wet the floors and cracked the doors! Take a look:
57wagon and i painted my 59 in his garage. we hung mosquito netting over the doors to keep bugs and additional debris out
Jason has been a buddy of mine for many, many years- and the Road Zombies as a club have always been friends as well- They came to the first Billet Proof we held at Albany Bowl in 97- I'm not part of BP anymore, but they've supported every show I've been involved with since then. Awesome guys. jay
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