(D.I.Y.) How to Build a Home Paint Booth for Your Car

[joels_vega]

VIDEO 1 ....... Home Paint Booth in Your Garage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tkLbZS1EV8
VIDEO 2 ....... Making a *Small Painting booth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLAQTgNqc4 (Funny Video...coolmusic... [clear plastic and external lighting = better lighting and no fume/fire concern])
VIDEO 3 ....... $50 dollar Rustoleum Roller/Paintjob with MIRROR finish (Parts 1-4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoJStKE1Z6A
(video by ex-mafia guy -- formerly a successfully hidden witness in the Witness Protection Program)
1ST ARTICLE....... (with pictures) How to Make Your Own Low-cost Car Paint Booth in Your Garage.
http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/720.cfm
2ND ARTICLE.......(with pictures) How to Paint Your Classic Car (**at the end of the first article)

(G-o-t T-i-p-s?) Advice from websites
1) *You need as much air coming in as you have going out. (You could get by with just 2-3 Exhaust fans. Don't really need intake fans -- just Freeflowing , yet filtered intake ... filter on open window/open area. ) *L-O-T-S OF LIGHTING (especially with darker colors).
2) Use good filters (Furnace Filters--25"x25", package of 4 = only $2.99 @ Home Improvment Store/beach towel/large hairy dog/on the inside (suction) part/or both sides exhaust fan. I was doing a small project (on windy day) and accidentally got overspray on a neighbor's car (about 40 ft. away). Spent next 1-2 days with Qwik Clay (clay bar and liquid car wax spray) getting enamel overspray off heverything.......car turned out great.......ooops.
3) One experienced painter uses his home garage; puts up *low-cost plastic drop clothes on the walls with a Staple Gun; and said it's not really necessary to cover the ceiling... this would save you the expense & time in making the frame.
4) "I had a friend that would use his own garage and he would clean it really well, blow it all out, then hang *Plastic Sheeting from the roof on all sides. He said the plastic sheeting worked in 2 different ways, not only did it protect the rest of the garage from overspray but the stuff has alot of *static electricity that tended to attract the dust to the plastic instead of it falling all over the fresh paint".
5) S-A-F-E-T-Y....... "Be Careful re: Paint fumes...Wiring...Sparks (from drill/heater motors/switches)...Open Flames...Cigarettes.... Last year when I heard a 'boom' and saw my neighbors barn on fire.He was spraying with the paint booth door open and one of his employees tried to start a tractor next to the open door... All electrical work is supposed to be in rigid conduit with seal-offs,explosion-proof fixtures ($$$$) and an Exhaust fan located outside of the booth. Put your light switches outside of the booth, don't put any receptacles in the booth -- you don't need to plug anything in inside anyway. I used a car paint booth before....and all the Lighting was behind thick glass panels".
6) *Wet garage floor really good to hold down dust etc.