This is a little off subject, but I suppose I should mention that I have a
paint booth I would be willing to part with.
This is a complete, full professional grade "Binks" (the best!) booth, with
blower, air filters, compressed air lines and fittings, lights, manometer
for checking air flow etc. It has very bright fluorescent lights all the
way over the car, and down the sides almost to the floor - the blower is a
monster (4 foot blades run by a monster motor, but very quiet and very
gentle, even flow). The booth is about 25 feet long, with drive through
doors on both ends, and is about 12 feet wide - in a pinch, one could store
2 small or one very large car in it when not in use. The booth is
completely disassembled, and the parts can be moved on a large flatbed car
trailer - that's how I moved it when I bought it. I bought it used, about
10 years ago, from a failed electric car manufacturer in San Bernardino, and
I don't plan to use it again. Anyone in the IML is welcome to it, but
you'll have to provide the transport for it, and show up in Temecula, CA
with laborers (at least 4 guys) to load the larger pieces like doors etc.
It is intended to be set up on a concrete slab, inside a structure to
protect the top of the booth, although a temporary "pole barn" type roof
would be sufficient. This will be a major project to move and erect, to be
sure, but the result will be the ability to do a really professional,
totally dust free paint job.
Contact me off list to discuss this at dickb@xxxxxxxxx
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenyon Wills" <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Paint booth
> 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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