Home Made Spray Booth?

I'll ship my paint guns and resperator out there and fly my self out there and paint it in your garage for $4000.

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whats the giggleing for , its only spraying. hummm let me think, round trip ticket around 400 , he picks me up i shoot his truck, i stay over nite i get back on plane and fly home. thats a pretty nice wage considering others were quoteing him 8K to paint it. and seeing as most of us here on this body and paint forum dont make 4K a month , 4 grand is a nice income and nice to the owner of the truck. so im here to be helpfull please dont laugh. he who laughs first laughs last.

I thought it was "he who laughs last laughs hardest"

All I can say is some of these paint shops out there are truely in it for the money. If you can find a painter that still enjoys what he does and truely loves to paint there is no need for a paint job to cost 6000-10000 I have 800.00 in materials on my truck and thats cause I had to have some colors that nobody makes but HOK. Duponts has there line of hot hues and there nice and inexpensive they have candy consentrates also. As I said I have 800.00 in materials my painter charged me 3500.00 to spray it thats everything grafix and all. I will say I took it to him in parts that may be some of the money but hell If you cant take windows out and the interior out well. He is doing a full color change and grafix on my extra cab now. I took the handles lights windows and parts of the interior out and he is doing that for 3500.00 and he is buying materials thats body work and paint. Now I am just saying that these people are out there, he loves getting to do something that is not the everyday paint the stock car the stock color. These people are also the people that you are not going to take your truck to monday and get it back in a week or two either. Did not mean to get off the homemade spray booth thing but just something for you to think about

Originally posted by coolpaintprofessor



whats the giggleing for , its only spraying. hummm let me think, round trip ticket around 400 , he picks me up i shoot his truck, i stay over nite i get back on plane and fly home. thats a pretty nice wage considering others were quoteing him 8K to paint it. and seeing as most of us here on this body and paint forum dont make 4K a month , 4 grand is a nice income and nice to the owner of the truck. so im here to be helpfull please dont laugh. he who laughs first laughs last.

First off don't get butt hurt.....

second, he only asked for advice on a home made paint booth....not for quotes or estimates (he didn't even ask for any help painting)

Therefor, I thought it was funny that not only did you JUMP at the chance to try and make a dollar....I'll bet you didn't even think about,... maybe dude just wanted to paint his own ride? (he did say he used to paint you know)........And 4 grand might be more than he wants to spend for somthing he may very well be able to do himself?

So I thought your modest jester was funny shit....no offense bro relax

maybe try wetting the garage floor as well to keep the dust in the air from sticking to the ground???????

I do paint and bodywork and have built a batmobile replica, general lee rep., knight rider rep. I'm only 21. So heres to all you do it yourselfers. get you 2 box fans from the dollar store or a Freds or wherever you find them cheap, they are like $10 each here. get 2 filters for like an air conditioning unit for a home and tape to the backside of the fans. make you booth out of plastic sheeting or tarp and seal the edges with heavy duty tape, wherever the opening is to your shop have the fans pointed in that direction inside you booth and cut the plastic around the fans and seal the edges off. Pick an early morning or late afternoon to spray so the bug insect factor will be reduced, get your truck ready to spray, wet the floor and mist the plastic with water. you should be rady to go. As for the candy colors, what you need to do is just spray your base and spray your candy with light coats till you get the shade you like, then just fog the whole truck with you candy, this will help eleminate striping and darkness in your candy. Most thing to worry about is your clear, but it you mess the clear up, all you have to do is wet sand the blemished out and try again, or if you have enough clear on, you could always wet sand and buff because more than likely your gonna color sand and buff anyway. Good luck

^ word, what he said

i didnt jump for any chance imeant that the other people that quoted him almost 10 grand to just shoot paint are out of there mind. infact i have work comeing out of my ears, and they all have deadlines. so im not jumping at the chance to make a buck. and from painter to painter never laugh or giggle at any one , i dont pick on you and we all expect the same in return. No hurt feelings here just dont burn bridges, burinig a bridge is as simple as `1 purple giggly face used in the wrong way.