That cheap paint booth filter I bought off Amazon cost me $400 in rework

Bought a pack of 20 filters for $60 instead of the $120 ones from my usual supplier. Figured a filter is a filter, right? Wrong. Two jobs came out with dust nibs and fisheyes. Had to wet sand and recoat both. Lost a Saturday and burned through material. A lesson I won't forget. Any of you had a similar experience with cheap filters?

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nancy_miller2d ago

Funny you mention cheap Amazon stuff. My brother-in-law bought one of those 12 dollar infrared thermometers off there to check his oven temp. Thing read 350 when the oven was actually at 425. Ruined a whole batch of cookies for a bake sale. Not quite the same as paint work but same idea, you pay for crap you get crap. I bet those filters let all kinds of junk through. Hope you got your money back.

abby_kim552d ago

Wait hold on, I gotta push back a little here. Those $60 packs from Amazon are actually fine for a lot of shops if you pair them with a decent pre-filter setup. I run a small side gig painting bumpers and I've been using those same cheapies for like 8 months now with zero issues because I put a cheap Walmart furnace filter in front of them to catch the big stuff. Your problem mightve been that you were running them wet or the booth pressure was too high which forced crap through. Not saying you're wrong but sometimes its not just the filter thats the problem.