I'm going to be shooting latex paint on 1x4x(2' to 3') lengths of PVC part in volume. The PVC will be properly prepped and ready for paint. I may or may not shoot a bonding primer.....yet to be determined.

The paint is being applied to one face and all four edges. I'd like to place the boards directly on a spray table surface without raising them up with any sort of lift sticks. This will keep overspray from getting underneath and onto the backs. If that happens I can sand it off but would rather avoid that step without having to first mask the backs.

So the question is what material to use to cover the spray table that the paint won't bond to thus causing problems. I'm thinking of laying out waxed paper and seeing how that goes. If the paint doesn't stick to the wax paper I'll still likely have to lightly sand the back edges to rebreak/smooth out the edges after painting. Anyone have any experience with this sort of situation?

Thanks,
BH Davis

Can you buy a roll of rosin paper or brown paper from Home Depot and put a dowel through it and make it like a paper towel dispenser at the end of your table. And pull out the paper across your table and spray on it then just keep cutting it off with a razor knife and pull out another section and repeat.
You could make a quick dispenser out of a dowel and some scrap wood and mount it at the end of your table.

I was assuming you would be picking them up and moving them to a drying rack as soon as you sprayed them. Before the paint dried. Then roll out a fresh piece so you’re not laying them on to the wet paint you just sprayed.

Ahh........yes, that would be nice. But there is really no way to pick them up with the edges as well as the face painted. It would make them much easier to paint as vs. spread out across several tables. But let me think more about that. Perhaps I can come up some sort of lift device directly under one end that would allow me to raise it and get my fingers underneath after painting. Thanks for the follow up.

BH Davis