Disposable Pain Booth, again

[lonesouth]

The cop who came to verify my VIN also owned a farm. We got to talking about cars and stuff and he told me how they used to paint the tractors out on the farm. They would start by driving on top of some vsiqueen, pull another layer over the tractor, then take an 'acid pen' to seal the visqueen around the tractor, cut in and seal off a box fan and cut in and seal 2 household air filters opposite the fan. Turn on the fan, suit up and fill up, cut in yourself and seal behind you. Voiala, instant disposable paint booth.

Has anyone heard of or used this method? Are there easier ways of not getting paint everywhere? Was the cop simply out of his mind?

Thanks,

LS

 

[Gummi Bear]

Yes, I've heard of doing similar, and it's how I'll paint the Doodlebug this winter.

It's also called a 'Downdraft' paint booth.

The key is to have some pretty bad news fans sucking the fumes down to keep them from becoming airborne, and trapping them in the filter.

 

[lonesouth]

Where do you find the 'pen' to seal it up with? or would duct tape work equally well?

 

[bigmuddy]

I think duct tape would work fine, my concern would be igniting the floating paint fumes through the box fan motor.

Ben

 

[lonesouth]

The fan would be blowing fresh air in, the fumes would be passing through the double filter out. Makes a paint booth bubble...

 

[trlblazr]

If you try it, post some pictures. I'm sure we would all like to see them.

 

[Madgyver]

Not really disposable but it works.................. .

 

[Madgyver]

This was my 1st spray booth............................decorated during X-mas..........


And here I actually used it.......................

 

[TN1776]

I did something similar. I hung visqueen sheeting from my rafters, taped it to the floor and sealed in the ceiling with visqueen too. I used one box fan blowing in (with a filter on it) and another filter for an exhaust. I wet the floor down prior to painting but if I were to do it again I'd seal the floor too.

This setup worked very well and I laid down a very decent paint job for an amateur. I've got friends who've painted cars professionally who've told me it looks good.

May I also suggest using a supplied air respirator (like those made by hobby air) and if this is in your garage, make sure your workbench is accessible (covered in plastic) so you have a place to mix paint inside your booth.

Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of my paint booth.

 

[cobra70]

we used our carport to paint ours

 

[bronco-billy-66]

I just pushed mine out of the shop, and painted it in the driveway....turned out pretty good

 

[gearida]

I used PVC pipe and built a small one car garage inside my garage, used a restroom fan flexible heat duct and a bucket of water outside to blow the fumes into. I marked all the cornors of the frame to reassemble, using shower curtain hook/loops to slide the cheap plastic tarps together, and duct tape the edges. Worked very nice!

 

[Pa PITT]

Sound like a little overkill to me unless your doing a perfect show type job ...
But most of what I do is "PAPITTSGOODENOUGH" I liked the portable garage ideal tape som plastic on the sides maybe ...get up about 5:00 in the morning while there is no air just make sure you have it coverd so there is no moisture on it ..Wipe it down to get any dust on it off..with those cloths that have wax on them I've forgotten their name at this time ..I like to have my doors off to paint and hood off ..I do a better job on small parts rather than a whole car..