Well not a lot to report this week, a little sanding but tbh the coldness kinda slowed me down earlier. But I'm making progress on the sanding... it's always hard for me to find that balance between "dude it's just a truck and you're going to wheel it in the snow" and "this is a classic Land Cruiser and the world is counting on you to present a pristine example". I hope to land somewhere around the 50 yard line of that continuum.. time of course is the primary currency here and I'm on a race to get things done before the next cold snap of the weather.
So tonight I got some progress done on the "booth." I've had this idea in my head for about 5 years on how to turn my garage into a temporary paint booth. The steps are as follows:
1. Add an exhaust fan to the back door
2. Replace the windows of the main door with furnace filters
3. Put up curtains on the sides, just outside of the double side door tracks.
4. Add an intake fan to the main door.
My thought with #3 is this allows random junk to stay in place on the workbench, and also allows bay #3 to remain a holding bin for large items that I don't want oversprayed, but are too big, too heavy, or too nice to just put outside for a while. So when I go to paint the process will be back the 40 out, move junk over to the 40's spot in the garage, then lower the curtains and fire up the fans. Time will tell how well this works.
This is the exhaust fan I bought https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0836DQS7J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 it came with a rheostat, so I am hoping to balance my outgoing air so as not to create too much of a negative pressure. I'm really not sure what will happen here, basically will the fan suck air through the filters first, or will it want to pull in the plastic curtains... hoping it just sucks air through the filters. It says it will do 940 CFM. My rough calculation of the booth is 4,600 cubic feet (16x24x12) so let's say it will take that fan 5 minutes to replace all the air in the garage. Here it is installed:
So tonight I got some progress done on the "booth." I've had this idea in my head for about 5 years on how to turn my garage into a temporary paint booth. The steps are as follows:
1. Add an exhaust fan to the back door
2. Replace the windows of the main door with furnace filters
3. Put up curtains on the sides, just outside of the double side door tracks.
4. Add an intake fan to the main door.
My thought with #3 is this allows random junk to stay in place on the workbench, and also allows bay #3 to remain a holding bin for large items that I don't want oversprayed, but are too big, too heavy, or too nice to just put outside for a while. So when I go to paint the process will be back the 40 out, move junk over to the 40's spot in the garage, then lower the curtains and fire up the fans. Time will tell how well this works.
This is the exhaust fan I bought https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0836DQS7J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 it came with a rheostat, so I am hoping to balance my outgoing air so as not to create too much of a negative pressure. I'm really not sure what will happen here, basically will the fan suck air through the filters first, or will it want to pull in the plastic curtains... hoping it just sucks air through the filters. It says it will do 940 CFM. My rough calculation of the booth is 4,600 cubic feet (16x24x12) so let's say it will take that fan 5 minutes to replace all the air in the garage. Here it is installed: