Places you paint your Repaint
 

Hey guys, winter is almost here and I usually do my repaints outside. Anyone have any good places or ideas where to do repaints? Im living in an apartment and I dont have access to a garage :(


Thanks


CJ

Re: Places you paint your Repaint
 

I live in an apartment as well, I just make sure I open the windows. I am planning on building a spray booth when I get an airbrush though.

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Or do what I do and do it in an unventilated basement and let the good times roll....any brain cells that get destroyed were too weak anyways.

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lolz!!!not too many brain cells left on this end either:Dthe sad part is that i've done that before in my downstairs washroom.(with a broken exhaust fan)i ended up cleaning overspray off the shower door glass for about a week after that.never again....:o:D
but when winter hits,i'm usually still always good to go as i hand paint about 90-95% of the projects i do,and only have to spray the clearcoat.for that ,if it's too cold,i'll quickly spray the clearcoat outside,then do the mad dash downstairs with what ever i sprayed before the ol mother in law smells it and starts complaining.:(

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^lol that mother in law ruins everything huh?

Ya I pretty much hand paint everything as well so this ain't really an issue for me...the poor ventilation is obvious mostly when large amounts of dremeling...melty plastic makey room spinny

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Yeah, I close down the customs for the winter because of this as well. Though the couple projects I have on the go I'll still work on a little.

Re: Places you paint your Repaint
 

No no no no no no no no no no.
Do not spray inside unless you actually have a legit. painting booth set up.
Your best bet is to spray out a window & bring in the parts immediately to a warm & dry room.
Or do what I do, plan all your projects ahead of time & do all the grunt work in the winter & get everything ready to mass spray when the weather allows.

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Does this count as legit ???

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It's the solarium in my apt. I paint in there all year around.
i just open the window in the winter & run a fan. Plus I wait for "warmer" days.

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these days, i make sure never to paint indoors especially in the winter. this only started last year, i only paint in the summer unfortunately.

me<--- no more man cave and no garage. sigh.

Re: Places you paint your Repaint
 

I have an airbrush and spraybooth, so I'm normally good to go all year round.
I don't normally use spraycans indoors, though; the fumes from the propellant still linger despite the spraybooth.