Dad’s 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger 340

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Took a bit of a break from making a mess to clean up. Vacuumed and mopped. Now I am working on a small paint booth to contain some of the mess. Nothing crazy, just studs and plastic.

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Like that, have thought about doing something similar on a few occasions.
Are you going to duct the fan outside of your shop?
I see that you are more than a "token Ford guy", looks like a 69 Mustang and a 55 F100?
 
1970 Mustang and 1953 F100

That is an intake fan. I am going to have exhaust filters in the front wall opposite the fan. this is just for small parts.
 
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So its been a few. Work kind of stopped while a) it was cold, and b) I coached 2 softball teams for my daughters. But, it is time again to get to work. In the last week we have the doors, fenders, hood, and truck all in their final primer. Next steps are to wet sand that down with 320 or 400 grit, seal with white, and shoot some SPI Red on them! Starting with the trunk lid. I will get some pictures up.
 
As promised, new pictures. The boy and I sealed, painted, and cleared the underside of the trunk lid this last weekend. It took a lot longer than it sounds because I was also setting up the painting booth and air apparatus (home brew desiccant dryer, filter, and regulator). I didnt get pictures of the tools, but here is the underside of the trunk lid. I bit of trash in it, but its the underside. I chose that to do first so I could see the effectiveness of my hillbilly paint booth at keeping nibs out of the clear. Not so effective. So I will be getting an inflatable booth to do the remaining.

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Turned out great. Here's something you might consider trying on perhaps the underside of the hood or fender, in your hillbilly paint booth before you purchase the inflatable: wet the floor and sweep it with a fine bristle push broom, then wet again (don't saturate just wet) before you place item to be painted in booth - this helps prevent floor dust from becoming airborne. Also, don't drag the gun hose, loop it around your arm, attach to your waist and bungie cord the slack to the ceiling away from item to be painted, oh make sure hose is clean. I hope this helps somehow and saves you some money I'm sure you'd rather be spending on the car.
 
Really great color :thumbsup:.
I'm not a painter. Friend of mine had a restoration shop he got from his mom & dad and the booth was built in the corner of the shop, fan blew out back, 2 swinging doors, filter banks on the wall on the sides of the doors and a man door, concrete floor, very old school. He was able to turn out nice work. All in the prep work. Good luck.
 
re the hillbilly booth, best to use the fan to extract as when it's blowing in it can blow **** onto the job. just add a filter box in the booth before the fan to catch any paint. if you must blow into the booth fit a filter on the fan still as it'll hold dust from blowing on the job. you said there are 2 filters on the doors, normally the filter on the fan (extraction) side is 1/2 the size of the inlet filters. this reduces filter restriction to stop dust being drawn in round any edges that aren't 100% air tight.
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As for filters I was speaking of how my friend's shop booth was set up.

I didn't mention (you are 100% correct) fan show blow "out", creating slight negative pressure in the booth and filter bank should be on opposite end of makeshift booth.
Plastic sheet the walls and ceiling too. Many ways to skin that cat. Oh, don't spray primer in the booth, easy to sand it versus another coat of plastic sheeting / basically rebuild the booth before color coat.
 
So two steps forward, one step back. We originally scuffed, not stripped, the underside of the hood. Well, we were sanding it in preparation for primer, sealer, and color, and while blowing off the sanding dust, we blew off the primer we put on. Seems the hood was Repainted previously, and that paint job did not include proper prep, so the 2nd paint job was separating from the first. The primer I put down stuck just fine to the surface I prepped... that surface just didnt end up sticking to the surface under it. I spent the last two days sand blasting the inner structure to get the crap off. Just reprimed it tonight.

Also, the new booth has arrived. We went with an inflatable booth for two reasons. A) The size allows me to do more than one part at a time, and B) it has built in air handling. My son and I are going to see about setting it up tomorrow. Dad and my son spent yesterday getting rid of 26 old tires. Hopefully that makes room to put other stuff that is in the way of the booth space.
 
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Congratulations on the purchase of the inflatable booth. Can't wait to see it, you should take a video of it inflating. Be almost like firing that new engine for the first time
 
Thanks for sharing, pretty cool. I thought the ceiling fans were going to chop it up glad you turned them off. 11 minutes was quicker than I expected.
 
Joe Mc said:
Turned out great. Here's in your hillbilly paint booth before you purchase the inflatable: wet the floor and sweep it with a fine bristle push broom, then wet again (don't saturate just wet) before you place item to be painted in booth - this helps prevent floor dust from becoming airborne.
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Excellent advice. One thing I tried last weekend when spraying some epoxy primer in my hillbilly booth was I took a 2 gallon garden sprayer and wetted the floor, sprayed under the car, and misted down anything else in the area that might have some dust on it. Was super quick and easy and I didn't see any dust in the painted panels so it worked well.

I also use a shop vac to suck everything loose off the floor, walls, and anything else in the area first. I have been avoiding using compressed air to blow out the garage cause that tends to send everything up and it ends up coming back down onto your project.

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Sounds good. Have to remember vacuum then mist with garden sprayer. Less chance of missing a little puddle and slopping on project :thumbsup:
 
Put down color this morning on the inside of the hood using the booth. Two things about the booth. First, it clears overspray very well. Second, it doesn’t filter overspray for crap. I tried without the air draft attachment with the sealer, and this morning with the attachment for base. Night and day difference in the shop. Definitely need that exhaust routed outside.

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My old friend absolutely hated anything to do with Red, sanding or spraying. For some reason it gets everywhere worse than blues or any other color. Wonder if you could aim exhaust at some sort of water container with a cardboard deflector to perhaps catch most or some?
 
Been working on stuff. The hood and trunk lid are completely painted, but need cut and buffed. Today we worked on the air cleaner lid and the inside of the doors.

Air cleaner lid had a wrinkle finish on it from the factory right? Well, if it didn’t, it does now. My son did that... sand blasted the lid, epoxy primer inside and out, and then today VHT wrinkle paint. He did an awesome job!

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