Just looking for opinions on what I can do to help reduce the trash I am getting in my collision jobs. I switched to SPI clears last year and I have been able to match OEM finishes consistently, but I am getting lots of trash in my jobs. By the time I sand out the trash, the repaired panels look so much better than OEM. I have a cross draft booth and have tried evyerthing I can think of to reduce trash. I have a new air hose, 3 stage desiccant with new beads, and new booth filters. I have tried leaving the fan on the entire time I am spraying from start to finish. I have tried cutting off the fan between coats. Wetting the floors and not wetting the floors. I am taping my paper and plastic sheeting to the concrete floor so that trash is not coming from underneath the cars. Nothing seems to help. My dad purchased this booth close to 15 years ago and I have only seen a handful of jobs come out of the booth that were clean enough that they did not need buffed. I am lost at what else to try other than to just going to another style booth or build me a homemade booth. I remember painting in an open shop when I was younger and had jobs as clean as what I am getting now.
Is it possible to modify a crossdraft to maybe a side draft with a little ingenuity instead of building an entirely new booth from scratch?
Is it possible to modify a crossdraft to maybe a side draft with a little ingenuity instead of building an entirely new booth from scratch?