{"id":671,"date":"2025-10-20T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/?p=671"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:56:45","slug":"frame-painting-made-paint-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/frame-painting-made-paint-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Frame Painting – Made Paint Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe Great Scottish Chipboard Revival\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right \u2014 so first off, I\u2019ve been carefully preserving<\/em> (read: tripping over) the chipboard panels used to ship the bike all the way from Scotland to Canada. I was tempted to say London<\/em> just to confuse a few of my UK pals, but that seemed a bit cruel\u2026 and, well, geographically inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These panels have been living rent-free in my garage all summer, awaiting their glorious second life. And since I\u2019m now knee-deep in the annual \u201cgarage clean-up before winter bike hibernation,\u201d it seemed the perfect time to put them to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, out came the saw \u2014 I split the long pieces right down the middle of the center cross brace. That gave me some perfectly sized panels to build a state-of-the-art paint booth<\/em> (by which I mean \u201csome boards nailed together that will hopefully stand up to a light breeze\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro Tip:<\/strong> I finally figured out how to make the images on this blog clickable. You can now click to enlarge them \u2014 and click again to shrink them back down. It\u2019s like magic, only cheaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once everything\u2019s hung up and painted like a proper gallery piece, I\u2019ll let them dry indoors. The booth will get another go on the next dry day \u2014 assuming the Scottish weather pattern that somehow followed the bike to Canada allows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With winter closing in<\/strong>, it\u2019s a race between me finishing the paint and the temperature dropping low enough to freeze it mid-spray. Either way, the booth\u2019s earning its keep before we all go into hibernation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: <\/strong>Created my running To-do list on my site and also placed the Parts Assembly Diagrams for reference.<\/em>
BSA \u201961 B40 To-Do List (& Assembly Diagrams)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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