Spray booth

Many years ago when I was fairly newly married, my wife bought me a real one. Thumbed through one of my model catalogs and ordered it for Christmas. I guess she surmised that I didn't paint because I had to wait for decent weather, drag out the airbrush and spray paint. I had (still have) multiple models about 90% completed except for painting. They sit await my decision to haul out the airbrush.

In actuality, I simply hate painting, even though she gave me a booth to paint in the basement that can vent through the cellar window.

I've got one of the medium sized ones from Micromark. It ventilated out of the bottom via a fan which pulls fumes out through a laundry vent hose on the side and out the window. An absolute necessity for painting indoors.

I have founds that I don't use the filters they offer-- they just really decrease the suction effectiveness of the fan.

OK....If you want to build one, mine is a 2 foot x 2 foot x 2 foot cube made from 3/8 inch plywood. The ventilation is a 100 plus cfm bathroom ventilation fan which gives 12 plus air changes per minute, normally OSHA requirement for contaminated air. Then while you are adding wiring for the fan, add some hockey puck under counter lights inside which makes painting easy. Also add an outlet outside, for accessories. Go to the wire rack aisle in Home Depot and find a small wire closet shelf which I put inside for thinners and tools.

If you want to see the overall space, look here

www.redleg2scale.com/Bench.html

Rounds Complete!!  

After getting back in the hobby this past Spring, I've been doing all my airbrushing in the garage.  But when old man winter comes calling, I will have to get a paint booth.  Looking at getting one from Micromark website.  Fold up spray booth # 86104, along with the exhaust duct  # 86105.   I see there's a seller on ebay that has both items for $73.95, with free shipping.

A paint booth?

(after all these years)

So that's what's been missin'.......

disastermaster

A paint booth?

(after all these years)

So that's what's been missin'.......

NO-No don't fall into that trap. You just keep using that cut down house painting brush, an'  the Wagner paint sprayer .

Let these youngsters have their new fangled gadgets; we old skool guys have to draw the line  somewhere.

Built myself one, now I share my workspace with small pets...

As an 'ahem' "FAN" of re-cycling,   I used a discarded broken Storage box, clear-sided so I can shine light through it...

A donated tumble-drier hose for extraction, connected to a plastic crisps/Chips tray 'liberated' from the bin at work,  4 bits of skirting board leftovers....

4 high-speed 240V fans from an obsoleted computer cabinet, & below UKP£1.60 / USD$2.60 of fleecy filter material

Total Cost:  UKP£1.60 / USD$2.60    leaves lot of $ for beer-tokens

The Test, as above,  no smell, no fumes, no paint where not wanted, small (caged) pets not bothered by the noise, & uninterested *

* NO small or large pets were harmed during the making of this post!

Disastermaster!

Hahah...you made my day!! LOL

Holy cow, FOUR exhaust fans on that thing, Jon? How fast does it go? ;)

Hey guys sorry I put this post here but I was relying to a guy who put up a spray booth in aircraft. Anyhow, except for you old guys, what some of you have put together are interesting. I'll check out micro mark. Thx.

garzonh

Disastermaster!

Hahah...you made my day!! LOL

Yeah, and come to think of it, I guess that's why my snoot hair

Hi Doog

My MK1 effort was made with a shower cubicle fan, it worked but putting cooker hood filter paper if front of the fan reduced it's efficiency to 0!

My MK3 as in the pics, have 4 fans are  from a server rack, rescued from the IT dept. skip/dumpster.  (It helps that I'm a geek by profession, btw.)

The power harness allows me to have 1, 2, 3 or 4 fans running should I wish.

They are high volume, not high pressure, (google the Mfr name & model no for the spec)

& with a fleecy-type (lost the packaging, sorry) filter in front of the fans they have a noticeable, but not excessive 'draw'.

After 2 sessions, spraying Vallejo (VJ) concrete, & my own favourite mix of black VJ Polyurethane Primer + Future (nice hard, satin finish), I can report that the fleece catches the overspray, there is no noticeable trace of  paint in the end of pipe that goes out of the window.

Noise Levels are acceptable, louder than the radio, way quieter than a kitchen cooker hood.

Now some may think that a Heath-Robinson lashup is over-kill, & probably is for a quick touch-up, the odd figure, etc, but I built it because I now need to be mindful of my house mates & roomies, & I really really don't like the smell of some FUTURE!

JON_A_ITS  a very competent and professional looking set up.

I do like your idea of the four fans, so as to be able to tailor your exhaust needs to your painting material.  Well Done.

Thanks Duster,

my work "stands on the shoulders of giants"...*

the MK4 rebuild will have 'slide rails' at the back, & a lid/top so that I can store the fan housing in the box & liberate bench space.  

*Inspired by the work of others that is....

I use a cardboard box, I got from my local hobby store. Picked up a bathroom vent fan, dryer hose, dryer connector sleeve, an electrical cord with plug & some trusty duct tape. Added a few lights so I can see. Got all parts from Home Depot for under $75.00. Been using for 5 years. I also use a 12" X 12" filter in it too.

I have a 12x23 section on furnace ducting that was out of a house being rebuilt, a exhaust fan from a high efficiency water heater that died and about $15.00 worth of parts from Home Depot. Vented through the side of the house. Now my wife does not know when I am painting. Needless to say much better deal. I guess if you count the cost of the water heater I have about $915.00 dollars in mine.

MKelley

I have a 12x23 section on furnace ducting that was out of a house being rebuilt, a exhaust fan from a high efficiency water heater that died and about $15.00 worth of parts from Home Depot. Vented through the side of the house. Now my wife does not know when I am painting. Needless to say much better deal. I guess if you count the cost of the water heater I have about $915.00 dollars in mine.

Well you certainly get first place in the "How Much Did You Spend " category

Seriously though; sounds like you made great use of "found" items,  to create a quiet, functional   paint booth. Good Job 

Good use of "found" items