I am one or two steps away from painting my 1960 and will do it myself. More time than money and all, and not much time so.....
My paint-booth plan for the garage involves making a filter using home heater air filters and cardboard taped together to fit (sealed) into the person-sized side door, mounting cheap box fans to it, and generating positive, dustfree airflow in the small doorway and out the larger open garage door. I will paint very early in the morning when it is still and there is less airborne dust in the general atmosphere, and certainly very still air.
I will use eye-hooks high up the walls one foot away from each corner, two per corner opposite each other. Then I'll be stringing aircraft cable so that there are three cables, each a foot off of the wall. No cable on the garage door side, which will be open. I will duct tape plastic drop-cloths across the cables and under the opened garage door, making a plastic roof and walls, with an opening at the garage door and at the door with the fans. plastic on the floor, or water on the floor and I'm set to spray. Once done, I rip it all down and am out $100. Most of that goes into the fans, and I can reuse them on the next car, only having to buy several new drop-cloths, which are maybe $10 each.
I cooked this up myself, so don't know how well it will work, but the guy around the corner gets great results by doing the same with his carport.
I will wear a respirator. Hope that you do too.
Good luck!!!
-Kenyon
bom tie <bomtie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am building a new shop (Its 100X 70 The Imp will fit fine)and want to think ahead and design it so I can paint in there also. Any web site or personal experts here to offer help? Charles Major
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