How to paint small parts with a paint sprayer?

Question

I am clear coating flat parts in a paint booth with a air compressor spray gun. They are actually ipod covers. How can I fix them to something and get an even coverage?

Right now I have them taped to the surface but I am having trouble getting coverage on the sides. Is there anything out there that will hold parts like this to make them easier to spray?

Answer 1

fishing line???

Answer 2

Try double-sided tape.

Answer 3

Can you mount them to styrofoam with nails or something?  Use higher and lower ones so they are at an angle to make it easier to get the sides and see what you are spraying.  I use this trick with cardboard for painting s***w heads for white or special colored furniture.  I just spike the s***w through the cardboard and spray away.  Let dry and remove, but in your case, you need to have them above the surface.  If the nails are far enough apart,  can you wedge the Ipod covers on to secure them?  Otherwise, maybe a glue gun to secure them, or NP1, then pop them off?  Or how about play dough on the nail heads?  You'll have to experiment.

Answer 4

Cut a piece of wood just a bit small then the case. mount that to a long piece of wood. That way you can spray dozens if need be. Just use double stick tape.

Answer 5

The traditional solution is hardware cloth or screen - the openings let the flow of the spray go by the piece instead of bouncing off a flat surface and possibly flipping the pieces.

Answer 6

in the top and bottom [can also in the sides] of your booth put eye hooks. connect a swivel to one  eye hook and a spring and then another swivel to the other eye hook. then cut some wires as long as  the distance from the swivel to the ipod cover or other object you want to spray paint. Bend small hooks at the end of the wires and now you can put the ipod cover with a little bit of tension from the spring exactly where you like to have it in your booth and you can turn the object around without touching it.

With this object holder  [OH] setup you also can put  more than one OH in your booth. However what i prefer is to make one of more wooden frames that you can place inside your booth with one or more OH's and then you can spray them and take the frame with the objects out and put that in a place where they can dry and put another frame in your booth and keep spraying. But this is only use full  if you do some production work. If you need a drawing send me an email with your email and i make you a drawing.

[i used the  swivels that i bought in a fishing shop. these things have different names like crane swivel, snap swivel, barrel swivel] the first setup will have some trial and error but then you probably will be satisfied with this new  jig, that you also can use for spraying many other small objects