Sanding in the booth??

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mad57

Ok so my home booth has been up and running now for about 6months,its not perfect but does seems to work with what i had, now a couple of my good friends are pro body guys and either own shops or work in them, i swore that when i was built that id never sand in the booth, some fellows that have used my booth have sanded in it and say its no big deal and just hosed the floor down...now from what ive read in the sticky that water doesnt help a GOOD paint job. so whats the final word on this topic?? I also do ALOT of powder coating and again my buddys say just do it in the booth ....im no pro and i can see if you invite any dust, bugs ect into the booth area your asking for problems,....right?
 
a booth is sacred. operating room, clean. otherwise it is a paint room . unfortunately i have to use mine for everything sometimes . i just wash it out and put a fresh coat of paint on it when i have paint work to do.
 
In a pinch I think most of us have done some sort of sanding in a booth. But I cringe if I have to. I've always been kinda anal about my booth. On the other hand I've painted outside in the past with better results than you might think. But for the amount of work it takes to clean a booth why make it any harder?
 
well i do agree with these guys but on the other hand the biggest dust maker is your paint gun. its really not the fine snading dust that you need to worry about. its fuzz, lint, bugs and specs of crap. after i get done spraying, especially primer i can sweep my floor and fill a dustpan with a mountain of dust. thats no different than sanding dust. before you spray you really need to sweep the booth out, turn your fan on then blow the floor and walls off working it down to your exhaust filters. most dust and dirt you get in your job is going to come off you or the car itself.
 
true that !!! cowl vents, jambs , under the car etc. we did a test at good times vans on the clear room. i proved to them we needed to stop clearing the cowl vent on the vans. we blacked out the booth then set up beam lights. one pass over the cowl with a gun and the shit flew everywhere . i spend the better part of my morning exhausting and blowing the booth.
 
I home hobbyist and have to spray in the garage where I park the car. For the main body I had to do all the sanding, etc. in the garage due to the fact my driveway is pretty step for pushing the car in and out.

All other small parts I do the filler work in the garage and then move them out to the drive for sanding and let the wind take the dust away. Is that good or bad?
 
Pretty much what i figured.... whats the word on wetting the floor good or bad for the universal clear, im going to try this stuff i currently have been loving nason selectclear 497-00 with the 483-78 act its a 3 to 1 mix, i have been happy so far but cant help wanting to try the universal. should i expect a big diffrence between the 2??
 
i wet the floor to keep anything from moving. but i watch humidity and wait for it to pretty much dry before shooting.
comparing nason to spi is like comparing a hugo to a cadilac.
 
big difference? HECK YEA! in all aspects!!

I do as shine does with wetting the booth floor..being a downdraft helps a bit more with drying the floor.
 
sometime i have to sand in the garage. then i sweep, vacuum, let things settle, blow project with air, tack, do some ghost spraying with air to see what flys around, tack again...still most dust seems to come from me...
 
We spend quite a bit of time blowing out areas like the insides of doors, cowls etc. before each round of primer. There are enough chances to do so as we prime several times just like most do. If you do that enough, all that is left to jump out of the cracks might be a bit of sanding dust, which is less of a problem than a lot of other things, as mentioned.
 
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