drill press as painting jig

Hey,

Over last 30 years have painted several long skinny round things and always get paint on my hands and always puzzled about best way to do it. Tried several ways and nothing was good.

Whilst pondering today realised a perfectly good jig had been staring me in the face for all that time.

Easy to whizz it round by hand and get the paint on, a pleasure to use and very quick and simple compared to previous efforts.

Simple version - 2 nails and a drill press

Sophisticated version - live centre on bottom, nail on top and a drill press. Moves around more easily.

Feel like a right goose for not realising this beforehand.

Bill

Sometimes the simplex solutions are under our nose but cant see the wood for the trees

You didn't say if it was brush or spray?
If possible I like to apply paint in my fume hood so that rules out using the drill press and and I don't know if I like the idea of spraying that close to a machine especially as mine has a VFD attached.

I screw/attach a small hook into one end of the pieces and then attach the cords to wire hooks at the other end and suspend them inside the fume hood.
I keep a set of these on hand so I don't need to continually make up new ones.
It's pretty easy to get a long thin objects oscillating around on the end of the cord by just twirling the objects or cords by hand.
I sometimes suspend several items close together to maximise the use of spray.
When I'm done I wait for the bulk of the fumes to go and then I can hang the pieces elsewhere in the shed so that I can paint others inside the fume hood.

Before I had the fume hood I used to suspend objects from tree branches outside and paint them. For lots of objects I used to horizontally suspend a 25 x 50 wooden batten from a couple of tree branches and suspend objects from the batten,

I've also set up a 200 x 200 mm turntable on top of a 300 mm high wooden pedestal. The turntable uses a lazy susan bearing and enables me to put objects onto it and rotate and spray as needed. I also pre-add wire hooks to the objects so when they are paint they can be moved elsewhere so I can spray others.

Hey Bob,

I only use a brush.

I can see the merit in the eyes and the hooks and a bit of tension to suspend the object and will keep in mind for possible use in future.

Drill press has got me out of trouble today. Brilliant for quickly catching and smoothing out the accidental running drip.

Bill

I think for brush the drill press is probably more suited, that or a lathe. Work would move around too much on wires for brush application I think

I like your idea


Dave the turning cowboy

turning wood into art

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Originally Posted by DaveTTC

I think for brush the drill press is probably more suited, that or a lathe. Work would move around too much on wires for brush application I think

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Add another hook to the bottom and hold and turn that.

That's funny.... I use my pedestal drill press for mixing polish. Simplicity in itself long heavy duty paint stirrer from paint or hardware shop and 30-60 litre container to mix in.

Works a treat and is a cheap variable speed alternative to a really, really, expensive single speed, dedicated mixer.

Have used it for other stuff as well including drum sander, flap sander, disk sander, also for buffing, shaping, polishing, mortising, oh yeah and occasional drilling. Probably a couple of other things I've forgotten about.

:U

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Originally Posted by ubeaut

Have used it for other stuff as well including drum sander, flap sander, disk sander, also for buffing, shaping, polishing, mortising, oh yeah and occasional drilling. Probably a couple of other things I've forgotten about.

:U

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Also useful as a light duty press for inserting bushes etc. and to keep taps upright and straight when tapping metal.

Alan...