Garage curtain for welding/grinding

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Looking for some ideas on a simple low budget solution to making a curtain that can be pulled open/closed for welding/grinding.

I have a small garage (20x22) so I have limited space and can't/don't have a dedicated grinding area.

I've been thinking that if I had a curtain that could be opened/closed it might help reduce the debris that goes everywhere.. I know it won't stop all of it but any reduction would be great..

The area I'd want to block off is ~8' out from the wall and 10' foot across. Obviously having a way to move the curtain some would be great..

Some ideas I have are:
Conduit with a sturdy S hook shower hanger, and 1-2 smaller 6x8 ish heavy duty tarps. Add some extra grommets to the tarp.

I figured I could bend up a mounting bracket to allow the S hooks to pass and still hold the tarp.

Any ideas ? Or solutions you've come up with ???

Thanks!
 
We use some yellow welding curtian from grainger. It comes with eyelets on one side and we use S hooks and heavy duty zip ties to hang it on some 1/8" steel cable connected to a frame with eye bolts.
 
mmcj7 said:
We use some yellow welding curtian from grainger. It comes with eyelets on one side and we use S hooks and heavy duty zip ties to hang it on some 1/8" steel cable connected to a frame with eye bolts.
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I agree, and be careful that the grinding sparks aren't going up into the floor joists with the dust that is already there.
 
I've got a buddy who paints in his shop some. He wanted to come up with a way to make temporary walls that could be rolled up/stored and deployed easily. What he did is take maybe 1" pvc sch. 40 pipe and screwed one edge of 6 mil plastic sheeting to it. He made four of them to make 4 walls. Hang the other end of the plastic to the ceiling So you end up with a plastic wall with a pvc tube at the bottom holding it down on the ground. When you're finished painting you just grab the tube and roll the plastic around it like a roll up window blind and tie it to the ceiling. It works really well and you could use different material like a fire blanket or tarp since you're gonna be grinding into it.
 
S hooks are ok, use 1/4 steel cable and do 3 sections. I use to work in a huge metal fab shop and we did this in place of the s hooks because the s hooks will sometimes jump off. Run the cable through the groments in whatever curtain you use. Also the heavy canvis tarps that Harbor Frieght sales also work good for the curatin, we would buy a 20 ft x 20 ft and cut it into 8 or 9 x 20 ft sections and have the bottom heimed, so it was like 2 for one pricing.
 
Use these poles and some heavier tarps from northern or harbor freight. I assume you could find the poles somewhere online cheaper. Maybe even harbor or northern has something by now. I seen it on "cool tools" and they have an adapter to spread the clamp so it cover something like 2-3 feet instead of the 4-6 inch footprint.
 
I use the welding curtain with steel cable at work and it works great only thing I would change is adding a turn buckle or two to tighten everything up. I got my curtains from air gas I think they are 10ft by 6 or 8ft for like 36 a piece
 
I used an old roll up movie screen in one area of my shop. All ready had mounting brackets. Didn't go all the way to floor, but did not matter in my application. Mount black side towards welding.
 
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