Well gang, I finally did it. Got the wife's Voyager van painted over
Thanksgiving. Expended about 57 hours stripping it to bear metal
and about $300 for material. We shot it at a friends garage.
That's what I want to tell you all about.
The garage was one car long and 1 1/2 cars wide. He has a window
in the back wall and one in the left wall. He has plastic stapled
to the top of the wall all the way around. When he is not painting
the plastic is rolled up and tied in place. When he wants to paint,
simply untie the plastic and roll it down.
The plastic that covers the left side of the garage has 2 filters
(like you use for you heater return in the house) taped over holes
in the plastic. The plastic on the rear wall has a hole cut in it
and gets taped around the window with heater filters placed in the
window.
Now the really neat part. He made an extension for the garage.
There is a PVC frame that just fits in side the main garage door
opening. The frame has pipe insulation around it which is used to
seal the frame to the inside of the door frame. The top and bottom
of the frame have another frame attached to it that get supported
by removable PVC pipes. This way the top and bottom will fold up
for storage. The entire frame is covered with plastic. In the
left and right sides of the extension plastic there is a hole cut
for a box fan. These 2 fans end up with a pretty good draw through
the garage.
I was very supprised at how well this arrangement works.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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