i have a 67 f100 and i just restored it and i was hoping to do all of the painting myself and I was wondering if any one could tell me how to make a home-made spray booth

 

Hey ford1967,

Can you tell us what size garage you'd be dealing with? But first things first: Are you aware of the face mask/respirator requirements?

 

could have a booth like mine in less then 5 mins. check weather, move truck outside. spray....

 

My garage is prabably 10 x 24 feet yes i am aware of all of the painting tools and respirators, ect.

 

get some painters plactis and line the celing and walls all the way to the floor. to prevent dust from falling. before u paint wet floor to keep dust down and construct a fan that pulls air out of booth. key is to pulll sir out from booth and them make an opening and place a filter over that. keep the fan and filter near the floor. a simple a/c filter will work

 

i would hang plastic over the walls/in front of shelves just to keep overspray off everything, and put a fan in the window blowing out away from the truck so it will pull the overspray away. a good idea if u have a couple windows put some of those fiberglass furnace filters in the windows so dust doesnt blow in and put a fan in the door or another window blowing out. that should keep anything from coming into the garage and messing up your paint.

 

looks like blue moose just beat me to it .. mus be a good idea

 

You can construct a light wood frame with filters and plastic in it to fit the garage door opening or other door/window openings. Seal up around the fan good. You want ventilation without wind tho. Get plenty of light into the area so you can see. 10x24 will be pretty small if there are shelves and other stuff around the walls. It would be best to clear everything out of the garage for room to move.

 

thank you for your comments but do you know how i could insulate my fan motor

 

Lots of good advice here. The best thing that I can recomend is get yourself a good HVLP (high volume low pressure) paint gun. It sprays the paint at about 4 psi and incredibaly reduces the amount of over spray. And you use about 2/3 the amount of paint. The control that you get with this gun is ammazing. You can adjust it down to a narrow spray (like an air brush) when going around door frames and trim. I painted my brothers mazda pick-up in my old garage with only the front and back door open a bit and had almost no overspray.

Good Luck

 

Thanks but I already have a HVLP gravity feed gun

 

What do you mean "insulate my fan motor" ???

 

I share a hangar with a friend and he just completed painting his airplane. We built a paint booth out of painters plastic and bailing wire. It looked like a circus tent inside the hangar. Everything had to be covered in plastic because we rent the hangar and couldn't risk getting overspray into another building. We made a small door frame out of pvc stuck into buckets full of quikrete. The filter system consisted of about the same thing everyones describing. A cheap fan with AC filters. A caution though, if you don't have good airflow you'll get vacuum and suck the plastic inward and up off the ground.

We tore this tent down last week and now we're devising a smaller version to stick in the corner so we can paint my truck and his van.

 

A friend of mine bought one of those steel tube framed "tents" that are supposed to be like a "temporary garage" to protect a boat/rv/vehicle from the weather. I wasn't too impressed at the time, because I was thinking about REAL garages & shops, but one of these things could be pretty handy as a "temporary paint booth". In an aircraft hangar where it could be set up quickly and bagged off using duct tape and some plastic tarp - used, then disassembled and quickly stored it would be great! If the weather permits (temp - humidity) a person could lay a tarp in the backyard, erect the "tent", place the vehicle inside, bag it off using duct tape to seal filter(s) to fan(s) and then be ready to paint! One thing I always wondered about was: Why does every "home made paint booth plan" only mention/use one fan? and always an exhaust fan? Why not use two fans? (for the "tent" this will be important.. bear with me.) Both fans will be cheap "box fans". Using the magic of duct tape, magic marker felt tip pens, and a tape measure, if necessary, an intake and exhaust location for each fan can be completely built and installed into the "paint booth" Filters of your choice should be installed(duct taped) to the parts of the fans OUTSIDE of the booth. The INTAKE fan should be located such that dirt/dust/etc from a driveway or street does not have a direct path towards it. You may wish to stack more than one filter in front of the intake fan- it's extra protection from dust, and it's cheap. The exhaust fan should also have at least one filter on it to protect from dust that may try to enter the booth should the power fail to the fans. Another thought on this project is the fact that box fans do not have sealed (explosion-proof) speed switches on them. To keep the booth "inflated" you will need to experiment with the fan settings, ie HIGH on the intake fan and LOW on the Exhaust fan BEFORE YOU PAINT!.... Once painting begins and the booth begins to fill with highly inflammible vapors, YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE SPEED SETTINGS OF YOUR FANS WITHOUT BLOWING YOURSELF UP! I am surprised that "home made paint booth" disaster stories aren't too visible in the news, but the people who report the news probably don't worry about the paint job on the Lexus coupe they drive to what they call "work" every day. Good luck on your painting. (the outside booth idea also keeps all that smelly paint&vapors out of your garage, gets away from having to move all the tools,etc.) Just my .02

 

Before you do all this, have you tried contacting some of the paint shops, auto dealers etc...they might rent you a booth for less than what all this will cost.