Enermax iVektor Casemod

I am not a professional painter by trade but have painted cars, trucks, motorcycles and computer cases in the past and only once has the item actually been in a ventilated paint booth.  Normally what I do is create a clean room environment using heavy clear plastic which is designed to keep dust off my work and overspray off my stuff.  Because of this you can’t really call it a "paint booth" but for argument sake that is the term I am going with.

My garage has a finished ceiling and for cosmetic reasons I didn’t want to attach 2x4’s to the rafters just to hang my plastic from.them.  Instead I decided to cut down my golf driving net and use that to drape the plastic over. 

These poles are 10 foot lengths of EMT conduit so cutting them down to the desired length wasn't too difficult.  Sadly if I ever want to setup the driving net again I'll need some couplings or will have to buy new legs.

As you can see I have used this plastic before as a drop cloth for a previous painting project.  I wouldn’t recommend doing that since plastic tends to get dirty after it has gotten wet.  It took a total of two plastic sheets to cover the entire booth and worked out quite well.

To finish up I pulled the plastic taunt and wrapped the excess under the metal frame.  I then used hand clamps to keep the plastic from moving around and configured an opening so I could get parts in and out and open it up to vent out the fumes.

The photos in this section were taken from my past casemod article and while the setup was exactly the same the environment wasn’t.  When I painted the iVektor (and one other case) it was mid November.  Sunlight was at a premium and the high temperature was a blistering 40 F (4 C) making the painting process a little more difficult and time consuming.

To combat the cold I had three heaters in the garage running between paint coats.