I often spray trim in the garage on buckets and it is a PITA trying to lay it out.
When I used to do a lot of that kind of work NC, we use to spray everything in place when staining and lacquering.
Stain was all sprayed in place, sanding sealer, and lacquer. Even the doors.
We use to brush Benite on the doors all 6 panel solid fir. Then have one guy spraying the stain and two guys with wiping rags. We would have that entire house stained in a day.
The baseboard would get done in the garage by hand.
We just sprayed the stain and lacquer righ on the PVA'd wall board, then scuffed up the sprayed areas, and painted over it. Never had any problems.
We used to wipe the stain off the hinges, I wonder what those lacquered hinges look like now?
Eventually we started popping the doors and staining and finishing them against the wall.
We would screw little feet onto them to walk them around, it's pretty easy once you get used to it.
And for a while we did it where we would put sacrificial hinges on.
I have always envisioned a carousel shaped like a horse track/dry cleaner rack. The doors dangle from a track in the top screwed in from the top.
You pull the door down to the bend in the "track. Spray both sides, then pull it down to the other side of the track. The track is actually shaped like an elongated U. Set up the bend in the U near a window with a lot of ventalation suction pulling the overspray out. Use a furnace filter depending on what is happening outside.
When they are all stacked on the other side of the "U" they are done.
They would need to be able to be taken down off the track and put back up with the hardware still intact. That way they could be sanded off of the track if necessary.
You wouldn't want to try to sand them all wobbly on the track. No leverage.
I have a different method for cabinet doors that I currently use that works awesome.
But a lot of times we are doing older houses where the hinges are already painted. In those cases, we just spray the hinges, and let them get that little black mark from being opened and closed. It's so fast the customers save a lot of money that way.
And the little black mark doesn't look that bad when all the rest of the trim is popping and there are new laser straight trim lines all over the house. And they are used to the black mark because it's always been there.
But somethimes the hinges are clean or they replace them, so we pop the doors and spray them a variety of ways depending on the situation.
Depending on the hinges, sometimes we wedge the door open 90 degrees and mask them in place.
Also sometimes we pop the hinges after everything is sprayed and clean them/remove paint.
Just make sure to slice the old paint and loosen the hinges before you do anything. I forgot to do that once, and finshed everything then was still obligated to get the hinges off and clean the paint off.
Needless to say the majority of the hinges did not come off cleanly, and took some of the finish with them.
You only forget to do that once.
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