Coat hanger paint stand

[B67ville]

I was asked "How do you set up a coat hanger so that it don't drop the car?"

Well this is how I do it.

1- Find one (1) coat hanger -wire type.

2- Bend the hanger in half.

3- What I do is I bend a Z bend at the one end.

4- On the other end I bend down 90 degrees.

This will be the end that helps hold the tension, and you adjust it here.

You can adjust for a narrow body.

Or for a wider body

Here the hanger is holding a 63 Bonneville Body

Here the body is hung with the hanger from the light fixture. It can also hang from a door frame, or where ever you want to put it.

Try it, it works , and the more you use it the easier it'll be to adjust to the body to be painted.

[RodneyBad]

That's perty good coat hanger bending.

Nice collection in the back ground too.

I used one for a stand.

No hanging required.

Edited May 21, 2009 by Zukiholic

[RodneyBad]

i have one of these set-up's too that's going on over 20 years old easy! made it up a really long time ago to spray paint bodies on from a coat hanger and a piece of 2x4. the "wire" has gotten quite thick over the years

Dave

Mine is over 18yrs old for sure.

Ya can see the wee bit of paint build up towards the top

It has served me well and still is.

Edited May 21, 2009 by Zukiholic

[Roadkill2525]

A better use of a wire hanger than having Joan Crawford whip you with it.

[B_rad88]

thank you for the info b67ville!

Brandon

[lowriderphil]

yeah the one good thing about hanging it upside down is if you don't have a spray booth it keeps the dust off the wet paint

[crazyjim]

Besides metal hangers, I've also used heavy gauge electrical wire bent to shape. I use the wire to tape smaller parts to for painting. A trick I learned is to latch onto the hanger or wire and put a rag over my hand so the paint doesn't get all over my hand.

Last year I bought one of those Tamiya stands and love it. I kept the hangers though.

[Foxer]

here is a pic of my very well used "coat hanger and 2x4" paint stand. i think i made this when i was 13 or 14 years old and have always had it. every few years i do clean off the wood block, but i've never cleaned the wire. this has faithfully served me through almost all of my model building years. i would really like one of the Tamiya stands. Rodney's looks like a nice homemade version of that style, good job man!

Dave

is that adjustable with the plastic hangers?

[Raul_Perez]

A better use of a wire hanger than having Joan Crawford whip you with it.

I may have to ask your dad about this comment the next time I see him...

[Roadkill2525]

I may have to ask your dad about this comment the next time I see him...

I looked her up after listening to the song "Joan Crawford" from Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult.

Edited May 21, 2009 by El Destructo Inc

[Foxer]

Mike, that's not a plastic hanger, that's a wire one! that's how much paint is built up on the thin wire

Dave

heheh .. I was originally going to say "or is that just all the paint on it?" as a joke! That has expanded in size quite a bit!

[Jon Cole]

Hey B67, I like your design better than mine, which is similar.

With my stand, I need to tape the body to the wire with masking tape. I cut off the tip of the "hook", and spread the two sides like they were feet. Then I use a small Vise-Grip to form a tripod.

mine is crude but functional. When I find another wire hanger, I will make one like yours! But... do they still make wire hangers?

[gbdolfans]

Hey B67ville,

I tried to pull this up and I got no pics??

Where did they go???

Can you refresh this and repost pics??

I want to print them out so I wont lose them again??

Or can you send them e-mail or pm?

Thanks,George

[FujimiLover]

Question. I like flipping the body on it's backside so I can spray the bottom of the skirts and the inside to give it a complete finish. How would you build a stand to support the body "upside-down?"