Homemade spray booth | Builders Tribe

by JEFFRO » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:11 pm

Thought there was a question about spray booth setups on the stream last week. Here is mine, along with a few learnings after a couple cerakote projects. I did the booth on the cheap to save money for supplies and build parts. I've started with C series. I don't have as much shop space as I'd like, so my workbench has to do double duty as the spray area. The "booth" itself is just a big cardboard box that I modified. Hanger bar is a bamboo rod leftover from some landscaping. I stapled the painter's plastic to an old piece of scrap lumber and can unroll it and roll it back up when I need to store it and go back to workbench mode. It rests on hooks I have on the pegboard behind the bench. A few things I've learned:

Invest in some good hooks and hardware to manipulate your work pieces. I use fishing barrel swivels with some hooks off Amazon and even some old coat hangers I cut up. Can generally move what I need while I'm cerakoting with this. I am finding this to be the trickiest thing though, so I plan the approach to a piece before I spray. I know the Branson Cerakote guys recommend Cerakote's hook kit, but that's pretty pricey.
Seems like I can't ever get enough light to make sure I am covering all the little corners and hard to get spots. Especially those doggone picatinny rails. I have a couple shades and spotlight bulbs clipped to the top of the cardboard to help. I have a shoplight above, and get some daylight. Better than nothing, but still wish I had more light.
Sandblasting cabinet on the left doubles as a shelf to hold all the cleaning supplies, so if I get a run I can wipe it down with acetone fast. I like having all that close by

Overall having fun with it and am getting better with practice. If I can rearrange the space I may get a cheap electric smoker and try some oven cure cerakote.