Paint Booth

[JDA_BTR]

Saw this on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JH4XX43...NsaWNrPXRydWU=

Looks like it is a perfect paint booth item???

[DaleB]

Kinda small for wings and fuselage...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QK5Z54B

[Nova RV]

The 10x10 would work great for a parts painting booth. I made a booth from the 10x20 size on Amazon and painted the whole plane in it before final assembly .

[Kyle Boatright]

I've used a 10x10 folding beach canopy (no sidewalls) when painting a lot of things. Wings and fuselage, not so much. A 10x20 would feel tight painting wings and fuselage, but it would be workable, particularly if you made a couple of minor modifications to widen the sides to give yourself a skosh more working room. The obvious modification would be to slit the corners of the enclosure and guy out the walls a bit, leaving a gap at the bottom.

That would also help with ventilation - paint booths can get pretty foggy without good ventilation.

[JDA_BTR]

I'm looking at priming more than finish painting. I'm reluctant to setup a full time paint area in the hangar even though there is space for it; fumes and such with some small worry for carryover to other things...... But these canopies would be pretty easy to pop up in the grass behind the hangar for a paint day too. Two walls would block a fair amount of wind

[iwannarv]

Portable plastic greenhouse from Amazon. I used a friends, and regret not doing it from the very beginning.

Similar, but choose your suitable size. Use a couple box fans with a/c filters to draw air out. Works fantastic. https://www.amazon.com/NSdirect-12x1...garden&sr=1-18

[Plummit]

Originally Posted by JDA_BTR

I'm looking at priming more than finish painting. I'm reluctant to setup a full time paint area in the hangar even though there is space for it; fumes and such with some small worry for carryover to other things...... But these canopies would be pretty easy to pop up in the grass behind the hangar for a paint day too. Two walls would block a fair amount of wind

Please be careful about painting in a hangar as paint particles will find their way into adjacent structures. We had a guy who would paint in hangars at Long Beach and he trashed adjoining hangars with paint over-spray. Pi$$ed off a bunch of people. The complaints forced him to finish a job outside and he trashed some rental cars that were down-wind.

-Marc

[JDA_BTR]

Yep, exactly my concern; and my own other plane too.... Didn't know about the portable greenhouse - like it. Not as easy to setup and take down though.

I also have a large space in my hangar mezzanine where I could actually frame a room with no kidding door and lights; might actually be the cheapest way.

[Nova RV]

For the over spray issue, you can buy an 18 foot x 24" diameter dog agility collapsible tunnel and direct the spray away with a fan. If you put a couple of bends in the tunnel the over spray will never even make it to the exit end and will just fall into the tunnel, all you get is the paint smell. It works really well, I painted my airplane in my paint booth and had lots of other stuff in the area (tractors, cars) and got zero over spray on anything else.

[JDA_BTR]

Very cool! I didn't know these existed either