Home built paint booth?

[phippsj]

Anyone out there want to share their experience building a small, home-built paint booth? I'm planning to shoot some Acrylic Urethane with some nasty thinner, so I would like to trap the over-spray and vent the fumes over to the neighbor's yard. I only needs to be big enough for some 33% wheel pants, gear legs, etc.

I need this for a one-time project (hopefully), so I want to keep the budget at the Home Depot level.

Better yet, anyone who is a painter with the equipment and facilities in the North Dallas area want to give me a hand with this? I would pay a couple of $$ to get it done.

Thanks,

[airborneSGT]

If you can try to rent out a booth man. Any type of good automotive type paints use a catalyst that uses oxygen to set it off. In other words in your lungs will be a place it happens if you are not careful. Regardless of what you roll with a respirator is a must!

[snoopy]

we supply hobby shops sparmax paint booth fan turntable etc

[phippsj]

	Quote: Originally Posted by airborneSGT
	If you can try to rent out a booth man. Any type of good automotive type paints use a catalyst that uses oxygen to set it off. In other words in your lungs will be a place it happens if you are not careful. Regardless of what you roll with a respirator is a must!

Yes, this is PPG automotive paint. My friend who has the spray equipment also has a respirator mask, but he is hesitant about the toxicity of the stuff.

The more I think about it, the more I agree that I need to shop this out to some professionals. Can't afford to get sick from the fumes.

[5150flyer]

Why don't you try the water based paints made by Nelson Hobby?

http://www.nelsonhobby.com/paint.html


I plan to use it on my Carden soon and I hear good reports. PPG is too toxic for me. Even getting that stuff on your hands is bad.

[phippsj]

Because I already bought the PPG paint. Plus, I wanted an automotive finish to match the rest of the plane. This is a painted-in-the-mold all-composite plane. Not simply trying to match a cowl with monocoat.

Anyway, my buddy and I built a paint booth out of 3 cardboard boxes, a $20 box fan and a cheap a/c filter and a couple of pieces of clear acrylic, all found at Home Depot. It was more of a wind tunnel with a window and access door than a paint booth.

The paint went on perfectly and we didn't even stink up the garage or get over-spray on anything. Everything broke down in minutes and the cardboard will go out on the curb for recycling.

The painted parts were fully cured by the next morning, so I had the plane put back together and ready to fly this next weekend.

[Walt]

Shoot it outside, did this for years. Usually in the morning early. The sun is absolutely the best light to work from also. I have a booth now which I built just recently but outside worked well.

[airborneSGT]

Here is the scoop on the water based products from PPG and others. You will essentially need all new types of equipment. Yes they are super low V.O.C. but there is a trade off.

A good alternative is find someone who shoots motorcycles or motorcycle helmets. That's how I found Clint Sweet back in the day down in FL. Anyway its much easier to get hooked up with someone who has at least the right equipment.

At the very least if you can get booth time where you just have to setup your guns thats cool. FWIW the military has two paint booths still in operation. Both are operated by MWR at Ft. Jackson S.C. and are on a first come first serve basis.

Honestly yes you could get away with spraying outside. However, make sure you got a good compressor, water filter, respirator. Hope your neighboors are cool also; that excess spray is also floating up in the air and into the lungs of anyone nearby.

You only get one set of lungs. I am not dumb like I was early on in the hobby. I wear a full respirator even when I cut cowls or anything that makes dust.