Paint bungs

[thehomeengineer]

Hi All,

Following on from my painting hangers http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/s...ay-booth-67131 I thought I would share how I prevent paint getting into bores. I find it hard enough to coat components at the best of times so this is a very annoying part of painting/spraying in stopping paint getting in places you don’t want it. Masking holes I also find difficult.


One day I had loads of holes that needed to be masked so paint didn’t get in. A few weeks before I had been to a car boot sale (garage sell) and bought a wine/beer making kit, which I only wanted the bucket with the lid to house my pickling solution for silver soldering. Amongst the kit was some rubber corks which fitted a treat in the holes. As this was successful I have since acquired several different size corks as can be seen from the photo. The second photo shows the hub of a capstan wheel from my ring roller I am currently building using the corks to block the holes I don’t want the paint to cover.


I hope this will be helpful to anyone who has had this issue and if anyone has any other good masking techniques I would be very keen to learn more.




Thank you for viewing.
The Home Engineer.

[Toolmaker51]

Natural or poly corks are used by many industries, and are available through many sources. But the most I've seen are used in painting, and re-usable many times. The poly type are more tapered, small as 1/16", hence more diameter range.
In lieu of stoppers, I've had decent performance from rolled news print, with top crimped.

[Frank S]

I save those plastic plugs from every plumbing, hydraulic fitting, or replacement part I buy. I have several coffee cans full of them. Probably the most indispensable throw away item ever invented. I use them and reuse them over and over and cringe when ever I see someone step on one that has fallen to the ground. A customer thought I was nuts when I told him to take care removing them and to save them instead of tossing them in the trash until he tried to return a very expensive valve he bought that had the wrong porting and spool configuration the supplier wanted to charge him over a $1000.00 dollars. He said I'll be back in a couple of hours. rummaged through my stash and found some new looking identical plugs went back traded out the valve only a $25.00 restock fee. Now a believer for life, and I am no longer the nutty guy who saves plugs from the trash.

[DIYer]

Thanks thehomeengineer! We've added your Paint Bungs to our Painting category,
as well as to your builder page: thehomeengineer's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Paint Bungs by thehomeengineer

tags: painting, mask