Cheap painting booth

speedpants · Post by **speedpants** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:11 am

I got the idea when I had to paint a ring to on a customer plane with a hangar full of aircraft, instead of killing the shop productivity and dumping the entire hangar for a few day the saying "necessity is the mother of invention" kicked in! for about $125 you can make one of these, all you need is a 10x10 ez up and 4 10x10 tarps, I zip tied the tarps to each of the 4 corners and then used tape to seal the sides, as you can see it works with doing both wing tips and inner wing sections, but could be adaptive to anything else. there is ZERO over spray, there is a slight smell in the area but nothing a open door cant fix, but a couple of heat lamps in there and your dry in less than a day, I am really impressed how well this works and the paint looks great, here are some pics. just thought I would pass this along to anyone who might need small parts painted or even sections of aircraft. Mitch

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:25 am

Good thing Mitch can fix and paint planes because he can't post a picture here!

hahaha Here ya go, young Mitchell...

Hmmmm... mebbe YOU paint my RV!?!

Here he is feeding my dog beers!

...and one of his newly painted planes...

We have too much fun here!

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:53 pm

That is pretty cool! Can't say I would have thought of that.

Bob Barrett · Post by **Bob Barrett** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:17 pm

Now you show that! Where were you in 2007 when I was looking for a good paint booth?

painless · Post by **painless** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:17 pm

That's pretty clever!