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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The $60 spray booth

It is getting close to the time to spray on the polyurethane on the desk. This will be the final step on this project. I'd like to do this within the next day or so, but we are currently on hour #12 of a 48 hour snow storm, so we may be held up!
At any rate, I need to protect the shop area, so I decided to build a large spray tent to help out. I've purchase some 3/4" pvc, and the appropriate fittings to make a large U shaped frame. Then, I've secured some thin painters plastic to it, making a nice, reusable, semi-portable spray booth! Here's the progress...




4 comments:

Grover said...

How did you end up attaching the painters plastic to the PVC. I am planning on doing this in my shop on a smaller scale..

Rob Eisenmann said...

I draped about 6" over the top rail, and taped it to itself using the tan colored masking tape (it's stickier than blue tape). I made sure to get the lightest mil plastic, so as not to weigh it down.
I sprayed the desk yesterday, and the plastic worked great!

Grover said...

Awesome.. I was thinking about getting some Velcro to attach mine with so I could break it down easily, I might have to give the tape a try since the plastic is fairly cheap. I could probably by several packs of plastic for the cost of enough Velcro.

--Grover
groverwoodworks.blogspot.com

Rob Eisenmann said...

Yea, I just wanted something quick and not accurate. I thought I could roll up the visqueen right onto the pvc.
12'x400' painters plastic was around $32.