Where do you paint?

[Nathan]

I was wondering where everybody paints and how many people have a real spray booth. Here is a pic of my low-tech paint room in the corner of my basement, which is also my swimming pool supplies room. I blow air out the doggie door with a high velocity fan which is very effective. I also wear a paint mask. I have to sweep up paint dust after every spray, and dust all the shelves after every 4 or 5 sprays. In this pic I'm about to spray the final primer coat on my Minie-Magg.

 

[dave carver]

Outside. With my back to the breeze if any, which there usually is a bit anyway, enough to carry off the overspray.

 

[Tarasdad]

In the garage. Outside is too windy and dusty, nowhere inside that can be used. I crack the garage door and open the windows, usually get a pretty decent airflow through without the flying sand and dust.

 

[Nathan]

Outside. With my back to the breeze if any, which there usually is a bit anyway, enough to carry off the overspray.

It's usually too humid around here in the summer to paint outdoors.

 

[TheSamurai]

Outdoors or in the garage depending on what we have to paint.

 

[goldlizard]

Outside hanging on a string from the rafter on what used to be my awning.

 

[Fred Garvin]

Usually in the garage. Door open, high volume fan pointed out. I have a medium sized cardboard booth I fabbed that catches 95% of the overspray...rest is airborne and the fan blows it out. For large pieces, I stand in the garage doorway and paint, letting the fan and nature carry away the overspray.

If the weather is really nice I'll paint in the back yard under a Bradford Pear.....

 

[Marc_G]

Location: Indianapolis area

I paint outside or in the garage when I'm using rattle cans. Usually outside, but in the garage (with the cars moved out!!) if it's excessively windy outside, or raining. Most of my rattlecan spraying is either rustoleum filler primer (I spray in any temp or humidity, no problem), or clear lacquer top coat (low humidity only [<60%RH], any temperature).

Most of my color coating is done in the basement with acrylic (water based) paints. I should get a respirator but I've been settling for a particle mask.

Marc

 

[JPVegh]

On the back porch where the prevailing summer time breeze is at it's least. I have an assortment of dowels from 1/4 inch up to 1.125 inches for mounting rockets from MMX to 29mm, I use my motor adapters to mount larger rockets. I'd love to have a propper paint booth and when I get around to building my next shed it will have one.

 

[RocketT.Coyote]

In the back yard.

 

[GDJ]

In the summer: Garage, doors open.
In the winter: Garage, doors closed. The heck with fumes. I'm staying warm!

 

[Marc_G]

Mostly on the fins, body tube, nose cone...

 

[krusty]

Mostly on the fins, body tube, nose cone...

:rofl:

Oh, I paint outside.

Krusty

 

[jimzcatz]

Outside, wind and sun be damned!!!

 

[Nathan]

In the summer: Garage, doors open.
In the winter: Garage, doors closed. The heck with fumes. I'm staying warm!

If you painted in the garage with the doors open in the winter in Edmonton, the paint would probably freeze before it hit the rocket!

 

[GDJ]

If you painted in the garage with the doors open in the winter in Edmonton, the paint would probably freeze before it hit the rocket!

Not quite, but close. It thickens and orange peels within 1/10 of a second, but it's much more manageable if I warm up the paint in hot water first. If I do that, it has enough time to smooth out before thickening up.

Drying times are increased 5X.

 

[jd2cylman]

I set up a spray booth in a corner of my basement. Roughly 12'x12'. I used thick plastic to make the walls and also lined the ceiling to keep the fumes from going up into the floor. I use an old furnace squirrel cage fan with a dryer outlet out the wall to vent the room. When I turn on the fan, it sucks the basement door closed .
I used 2 of those 300 watt quartz dual element overhead lights to brighten it up, and two more 500w floods when I want to make it real warm in there :wink: .

Adrian