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Permalink Reply by David R Anderson on September 21, 2014 at 9:51pm

Richard, I too am nearing the point of painting my 750. Go to YouTube.com and type in 'Temporary Paint Booth'. A lot of 'how-to' video's will appear.....one I viewed had used a garage as you queried in you post.

Best,

Dave

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Permalink Reply by Timothy D. McCall on September 22, 2014 at 9:30am

 

Richard

We used thin plastic and hung it from the ceiling trusses.  We overlaped the corners and taped the sheething to the floor.  Allow enough extra plastic sheething at one corner to overlap for a doorway.  I used a 30" box fan with furnace filters taped to it to filter exhaust air from the booth, just set the fan on the floor and cut a hole in the plastic and tape to the sides of the fan,  running the fan on low speed works well.  Inflow air came from the top of the booth, the entire top was pretty much open to the shop ceiling. 

Overspray will cling to the plastic and some primers will cling and then dust off later, change plastic often or you'll end up getting this overspray and dust in your paint. 

Dust control is probably the biggest problem you'll face.  We eventually started hanging new plastic directly over the parts we were painting.  Seems you could lay a coat of paint down looking perfect when you walked away then when you came back you'd find small speck in the paint here and there. 

 

I know I could of gotten a better paint job paying a pro to do it but the cost savings plus what I learned doing it myself was well worth the time envested.

 

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Dan Dempsey on September 22, 2014 at 6:29pm

You can look at how I did it.

My Paint Job

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Permalink Reply by Brad Rawls on September 26, 2014 at 1:35pm

Dan -  Very nice slide show and comments on the paint job!  How long do you estimate it took to do the painting when you take out the "family time and issues"?  Would you do it again?

 

Thanks - Brad

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