Ideas for Small'ish Paint Booth?

[crkleve]

Now that the garage is built I would like to start back on the restoration of my car. For that I need to do quite a bit of painting small(er) items, headers, motor parts, door panels, etc... Does anyone have any 'plans' for building a paint booth? I do want some type of air circulation and exhaust solution with the booth design. Ideas welcomed! Thanks & GOD Bless, Chad

 

[fireboat]

If you check around at sites like autobody101, autobodystore, or hotrodders you should be able to find a lot of info.
You definitely need good ventilation as clear coats kick up a lot of fog. Also need really good lighting and a supplied fresh air system for breathing.

 

[sberry]

You do not want air circulation but clearing. Search a couple recent threads.

 

[raffaelli]

I built a booth in my garage to paint my car. I shiping taped a bunch of 1x3 together to make a booth, draped it with plastic, over a tarp, 20" box fan with a crappy filter leading directly out of the booth to the exterior, 3 20" crappy filters for intake air, respirator and a bunch of portable lights. Work great. Lots of people will have lots of ideas. Just dont over think it.

 

[Cyberbear]

Usually the fan is for removing the over spray from the inside air to keep it from settling on the painted part. A lot will depend on your painting skills and proper mixing of paint and reducer for the particular application.

 

[Bruce4310TX]

Use PVC pipe to make the frame and then clear plastic, make a opening for a box fan and a filter on opposite ends. This is all i have used for years works great lots of people use this method. Dont glue all the joints so you can dissemble it when its not needed. Google.

 

[nadogail]

How small?

I made one from a clothes dryer box.

 

[crkleve]

How small?

I made one from a clothes dryer box.

That might be a bit too small. I bought some 2" PVC pipe and elbows a few nights ago. I am working on my design and will post some photos in the next few days. I have an old furnace squirrel fan that I plan to build a stand for to 'exhaust' the fumes through a filtered wood box. We'll see what I am able to create with what I have around here.

 

[zcar751]

Google portable paint spray booth design and look at the images you will get all kinds of ideas. A lot of them use clear plastic and some sort of knock down frame.

 

[sberry]

I show a room up version in an earlier thread.

 

[crkleve]

Thanks for all your help & advice. I have decided not to build a paint booth and utilize a true, actual paint booth one an hour from home for the restoration project.

 

[Will S.]

I made one out of 3 pieces of 1/2" electrical conduit, bent 90* radius' with my conduit bender, then used connectors to form a U-shaped curtain rod. Dimensions were roughly 7'x9'. I attached it to the back of my shop overhead door rail with conduit connectors, and used 1/4" rope to support the front of the 'U',. Bought a 10'x25' heavy mil plastic tarp from Lowes, and folded over the top 6", installed brass eyelets every 12". Then used metal shower curtain snap-rings to hang it from the curtain rod. All that was left to do was cover the back of the door and floor with a disposable plastic paint tarp, and put a box fan exhausting outside (by raising the door 10" or so when needed).

I put a metal table in the "booth" to paint the parts, and moved them to a seperate drying table outside the booth, when they were ready to handle. It worked out so well, I will certainly use it again. Meanwhile, it is stored in a cabinet, out of the way.

 

[JC23]

Just watch that the movement of air does not move the plastic into your parts or you.