Cheap Welding & Grinding Curtain

[canuck750]

I am often too lazy in the winter to move the car out of the garage when I need to grind or weld something and too many times the grinding lands on the car, not good.
So long before winter returns and now that I bought a new welder I splurged the $70 bucks for a welding curtain and from Home Depot a cheap curtain rod for $10 bucks and some shelf brackets and I have a curtain I can quickly slide into place and save the paint on the car.

I screwed the shelf bracket to the ceiling and then bolted the curtain rod bracket to the shelf bracket. I used a chain link, bulk box from Home Depot for about $16 bucks, double up the little rollers that glide on the curtain track to each eyelet on the curtain.





For well under $100 I have a flame and UV retardant curtain and no more excuses to isolate my welding and grinding from the rest of the shop.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  I like the lathe, where is the milling machine?

[Groover]

That's a dreamy garage, nicely done! You should see mine.. actually you don't want to see mine 

[canuck750]

  I like the lathe, where is the milling machine?

My off shore (China or Taiwan??) milling machine has crapped out for the third time, never blows a fuse, just burns out motors cutting aluminum, POS!! It's back at the repair depot where it sits for weeks on end before I get a call that it needs parts that takes weeks and weeks to get. I wish I had not been so cheap (Guzzi content) and bought a machine of decent quality rather than sinking $2K into this money pit. :Beating_A_Dead_Hors e_by_liviu

If only I had a another 100 square feet of shop space a Bridgeport would be sitting on the floor.

[John A]

I got welding curtains from a welders supply but they are heavy white things, makes them hard to use, 25 bones . I like yours, I'll get some like it, easier to use. I'm in a constant battle against grinding and welding dust, air circulation filters and all that but it still gets all over.