Build Thread As Requested: Project Horse Manure

[Boosted92LX]

Wet sanding. Oooh so close!

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

WTF??? You put the glass in BEFORE you painted it.

 

[Boosted92LX]

WTF??? You put the glass in BEFORE you painted it.

Yup. I trust me more than someone I don't know.

 

[Boosted92LX]

WTF??? You put the glass in BEFORE you painted it.

I.e. I can mask the glass. I'm not having some bonehead scratch my new paint. Besides, the highpowered etching primer was used in the window frame. It's good.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Think you'll get it shot this weekend?

 

[Boosted92LX]

Think you'll get it shot this weekend?

Definitely not. The boy has to go to work, so he won't be here to finish the odds and ends. I have to build a hooch/ booth in the shop. I'm going to hang plastic and rig some fans and filters. I've got a touch up gun ordered for jamming, along with two gun regulators.. Waiting on those. And the jams/ underside of the hood need more sanding. Close though. Very close. Unless something happens, i should be ready next weekend. After all the work, I just can't half azz it.

 

[Noobz347]

I looks as if you've found some gravitiez too.

 

[Boosted92LX]

I looks as if you've found some gravitiez too.

It still tries to load some wompy jawed. When it does, I go into my gallery, rotate the pic 360* and upload again and it works. I have no clue why.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Making a dropped down frame to hang a plastic paint booth canopy on.

It's going to be a 20x30' rectangle to drape the "booth" over..

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Be advised,...Plastic sheets will attract dust like a magnet. If you vent that paint booth with box fans and furnace filters and have a very "flopsy mopsy" tension on the sheeting,...those sheets will want to shed the dust like shaking a rug everytime you go in/out of the enclosure.

consider wasting some money on some long assed 2x4's and make a more rigid structure like I did for the Conquest paintjob to keep the flapping at bay.


( I jumped the vid to the end so you can see just the paint booth, and not the rest of the nonsense)

** The car in the booth is different from the one pictured at the beginning. The start is a Starion, the end is a Conquest.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Be advised,...Plastic sheets will attract dust like a magnet. If you vent that paint booth with box fans and furnace filters and have a very "flopsy mopsy" tension on the sheeting,...those sheets will want to shed the dust like shaking a rug everytime you go in/out of the enclosure.

consider wasting some money on some long assed 2x4's and make a more rigid structure like I did for the Conquest paintjob to keep the flapping at bay.


( I jumped the vid to the end so you can see just the paint booth, and not the rest of the nonsense)

** The car in the booth is different from the one pictured at the beginning. The start is a Starion, the end is a Conquest.

Hmmm.. Well, the plan was to string paracord across the top, and pull the sides down taught and duct tape the to the concrete, in an effort to prevent flapping. I sure wasn't planning on building something like that.. This is a bummer. I guess I'll test flap it when it's assembled and if it doesn't stay taught I'll go buy some 2x4s.

Like my kustom light stands?

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Hmmm.. Well, the plan was to string paracord across the top, and pull the sides down taught and duct tape the to the concrete, in an effort to prevent flapping. I sure wasn't planning on building something like that.. This is a bummer. I guess I'll test flap it when it's assembled and if it doesn't stay taught I'll go buy some 2x4s.

Like my kustom light stands?

Don't get too involved brother. put weight on the bottom of the "curtains".
Wet the curtains down with a spray of water prior to painting. I would rinse the floor first too. As long as you aren't too close to the car with the curtains, there really shouldn't be too much of a problem. Don't leave puddles of water on the floor. Your hose will find a way to spatter water with just a flick of the wrist.
Allow yourself about four feet all around if you can.I wouldn't put too much suction in the paint area with the curtain walls. Negative pressure is generally bad, a slight positive pressure is always best. Put a fan inside the curtained areas will give a way for dirt to come on in. You said you have painted a couple prior to this, was it in this type of environment?
I've shot cars in garages when I was younger that I could hardly see the car toward the end of the coat I was spraying and they still came out really nice and not bad dirty.
Just make sure the area is clean and wet the floor and curtains.
You will do fine, focus on gun control and pattern control. A steady smooth hand will do wonders.
BTW, love the lights.
Duct tape won't last, use bricks or something with weight to hold the curtains down.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Don't get too involved brother. put weight on the bottom of the "curtains".
Wet the curtains down with a spray of water prior to painting. I would rinse the floor first too. As long as you aren't too close to the car with the curtains, there really shouldn't be too much of a problem. Don't leave puddles of water on the floor. Your hose will find a way to spatter water with just a flick of the wrist.
Allow yourself about four feet all around if you can.I wouldn't put too much suction in the paint area with the curtain walls. Negative pressure is generally bad, a slight positive pressure is always best. Put a fan inside the curtained areas will give a way for dirt to come on in. You said you have painted a couple prior to this, was it in this type of environment?
I've shot cars in garages when I was younger that I could hardly see the car toward the end of the coat I was spraying and they still came out really nice and not bad dirty.
Just make sure the area is clean and wet the floor and curtains.
You will do fine, focus on gun control and pattern control. A steady smooth hand will do wonders.
BTW, love the lights.
Duct tape won't last, use bricks or something with weight to hold the curtains down.

One i did in a shop about the size of mine without a booth..used fans and filters and got a ton of dust in the paint. I even wet the floors in that one. The second was in my two car garage in my old house. I broomed the walls down and mopped the floor and it turned out perfect.( It filled up with fog too.. But the fans cleared it between coats. ) A friend of mine used the curtain method like I'm doing and claimed success, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Thanks for the compliment s on the lights. I decided to add more to each stand.. They work well!

My son is out of school tomorrow for Presidents' Day, and has promised the last of the sanding will be done when i get home so we can do the trim black on the doors and window trim. My touch up gun should be here by the weekend for jamming. Hopefully Friday night i can do that and tape up windows for paint Saturday.. We'll see i guess.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Don't get too involved brother. put weight on the bottom of the "curtains".
Wet the curtains down with a spray of water prior to painting. I would rinse the floor first too. As long as you aren't too close to the car with the curtains, there really shouldn't be too much of a problem. Don't leave puddles of water on the floor. Your hose will find a way to spatter water with just a flick of the wrist.
Allow yourself about four feet all around if you can.I wouldn't put too much suction in the paint area with the curtain walls. Negative pressure is generally bad, a slight positive pressure is always best. Put a fan inside the curtained areas will give a way for dirt to come on in. You said you have painted a couple prior to this, was it in this type of environment?
I've shot cars in garages when I was younger that I could hardly see the car toward the end of the coat I was spraying and they still came out really nice and not bad dirty.
Just make sure the area is clean and wet the floor and curtains.
You will do fine, focus on gun control and pattern control. A steady smooth hand will do wonders.
BTW, love the lights.
Duct tape won't last, use bricks or something with weight to hold the curtains down.

Oh, and yeah i used negative pressure last time, but it was a hard structure. I guess tape a filter to the fan and blow into the hooch?

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Oh, and yeah i used negative pressure last time, but it was a hard structure. I guess tape a filter to the fan and blow into the hooch?

In an unsealed environment like that I wouldn't have the fan doing much within the "paint booth" area. We have positive pressure in our booths by having a slightly higher inlet pressure from above going through a really stout filter and a slightly lower pressure exhaust through filters in the floor.
It would be difficult to duplicate this in your situation.
You won't want air to be blowing directly on your car, filtered or not. Our paint booths diffuse the air relatively evenly over the entire surface area.
The air movement is noticeable, yet very gentle. A fan blowing into the booth area would be too turbulent. Read: Dirt, dirt, dirt.
For your situation I would use the fan(or fans) toward the openings of the building to draw out the over spray. Two would be better than one. One pushing clean air into the building (but not directly onto the plastic), this is the one with the filter, and one as an exit drawing out the paint cloud you will have.
This won't be as efficient as a dedicated paint booth, but will give you some of the same dynamics of one.
Don't use the fans to fight the wind direction the day you paint. Just set them up to go with the flow.
Last tip, if it's real windy the day you want to paint, try to allow as little of it in the building as you can. You will just want a gentle movement of air for the best results in your situation.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Great advice! Thanks man!

 

[Boosted92LX]

TRIM BLACK!!!!!!

Ok, it's not body color, but technically, it is the first "color" paint to hit the car...

This stuff works great!

I checked tracking today, and my touch up gun should be here Wednesday, so I get to do the door
jambs soon. I'm taking off Friday for a long weekend. The countdown has begun.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

TRIM BLACK!!!!!!

Ok, it's not body color, but technically, it is the first "color" paint to hit the car...

This stuff works great!

I checked tracking today, and my touch up gun should be here Wednesday, so I get to do the door
jambs soon. I'm taking off Friday for a long weekend. The countdown has begun.

Sweet!

 

[Boosted92LX]

 

[Boosted92LX]