Anyone painted their EB at home?

[jperry1290]

Anyone painted their EB in a homemade spray booth in their garage/home shop with auto paint? Pics and advice please.

 

[englewoodcowboy]

I will be doing that in a couple months. Will build a collapseable booth out of PVC and Heavy Mil clear plastic, some gorilla tape, a long zipper, 2 box fans and some disposeable home A/C filters. Will post some drawings when I get them done. I have my sons B2 to do first, a golfcart then my Bronco and maybe someone elses EB too....

 

[Broncofan76]

subscribed as I'd like to give this a shot one day too.

 

[needabronco]

I did about some of mine in the driveway, the rest in a paint booth. I would exhaust your paint booth options first. Check around and ask the hot rod guy's or the tech school and see if you can rent a booth from someone. The booth I use is $100 per day, which is a smoking deal, but I do know of a few cheaper booths around, and several that are more expensive... Most community colleges that have a body shop program have a hobby class where you can use the college's booth and have an instructor available if you need help.

 

[casadejohnson]

I've done it a few times. I even painted outside a couple times, the key is doing it on a day without wind and early in the morning before the bugs are out. When painting in the garage I have found that the biggest issue is lighting. Base / Clear is really forgiving you can sand and buff out most of your mistakes. I used an inexpensive ($100) HVLP gun and PPG paint.
Here are some pics from when I painted my 74.

 

[barronj]

sorry to hijack

I've done it a few times.

Hey, thanks for painting your bronco the color you did. It was my inspiration!

 

[needabronco]

I'm not saying it can't be done, but in a real booth you can control air movement, bugs, dust and other flying debri. You can also control the paint that doesnt' end up on your rig.... Paint also takes a long time to dry, longer than you might think and can still be affected by stuff landing on it...

In the garage, there's air movement issues, bugs, dust, paint vapors that your wife AND your neighbors won't appreciate. I painted my front clip and my hood in the driveway (out in the country) on warm days with a very slight breeze to control air movement, I also tried to paint in the shade to help control drying...

Another issue to ponder is, unless your neighbors are super cool and don't mind you can get away with alot, one crabby neighbor and you could also face several code violations as well.... Why do you think body shops are required to use an epa approved paint booth?

 

[willtel]

I painted mine in a garage. Nothing quick about it but I think it came out good for my first paint job.

http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98590

 

[cap35b]

I took mine apart and painted it in and outside on the drive. Here are some pics.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9601/broncopictures029uf5.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6329/broncopictures030bk4.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2299/broncopictures031xc5.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4206/broncopictures032vn1.jpg

 

[allenfahey]

I painted mine in my garage and I paint for a living I was only planning on getting my Bronco all in one color, grey sealer. Then after I thought for a little while decided to goto work, mix up some color and grab some clear and shot it. It looks terrible, almost embarassed by it. I tell myself.... it's only a trail rig.

I have some exhaust in my garage. I have a whole house fan in the wall and a big air compressor. Wet down the floor and cover everything else with car covers that you get from the bodyshop supply place.

 

[needabronco]

The key there Allen is you have controlled your air flow.

 

[hdfx81]

I painted mine in my garage. It's not perfect but I'm happy with the results for my first time painting. Lighting was the biggest problem, mine wasn't all that great ended up with some orange peel but just wet sanded it. It's my daily driver so I wasn't out for perfection.

 

[bluebronco69]

we did ours in a 2 car garage.
pile everything over to one side, and enclose it all in painters plastic. make a mini storage area basically that is air tight and keeps things that you dont want painted, from getting painted.

next make sure you have good ventilation. we used one side window, and then opened the garage door about a foot at the bottom with a fan pulling air through. otherwise it will get too hazy to see.
good lighting. and lots of it. or it gets really hard to get something of good quality.

we did the body first. then the doors, tailgate, and top later.
worked out pretty well.


the last picture, we swapped sides and painted the top in the smaller half of the garage, but before that the smaller part was our "storage area" when we painted the tub.

 

[Justafordguy]

I've painted several in my shop and they turned out ok. They aren't show cars so I wasn't looking for perfection. Controlling the dust is the hardest part. I think my 77 turned out nice for a driver and it only cost me about $150.;D

 

[W650Mike]

I’ll get crucified for this...but…nice looking Jeep!

 

[bronco-billy-66]

A friend and I painted mine in my driveway about 5 yrs ago.. Did all the bodywork in the shop pushed it out.. primed it.. pushed it back in for wet sand.. pushed it back out and sprayed it.. no spray booth.. Did it right at daylight when the wind was calm and the bugs werent too bad.. its not perfect.. but for about $700 in paint and materials it looks good.

 

[zombie66]

I did'nt see anyone mention to you about the safety checks before painting. I painted mine in the garage but make sure you turn your gas furnace off at the panel and thermostat off as a backup. And your water heater if you have these in your garage with the pilot flames. I didnt want to take any chances so it helps to know. I turned off my gas valves to both of mine too. But painting in the garage is very doable if your neighbors don't have code enforcement on their speed dial.;D So be nice to your neighbors too.

 

[NGABronco]

What's a paint booth????

 

[jim3326]

This is my jeep that was painted in a garage in Ohio just to give and ideal of what can be done,its all house of kolor paint, all 32 colors LOL.

I can see why it's for sale;D;D;D

Jim W.

 

[gearida]

I built a enclosed structure PVC pipe, tarps on shower curtain rings, bathroom exhaust fan blowing through flexible heater duct into a bucket of water from under the tent and garage door. Painted a 70 Cuda, a Benz, and a TBird. Plus several bikes. Not bad jobs.