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  • Member since
    September 2012
Ventilation options
Posted by Nickg on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:34 AM

When using an air brush  what's the best way to ventilate a room that has sealed windows. I'd like to avoid breathing in the stuff and keeping the room from smelling when I'm all done.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:11 AM

I find an airbrush puts so little stuff in the air I do not worry about it. It is not like a spray can. If you are putting clouds of paint in the air, I suspect you are using too high a pressure and using the airbrush more like a spray gun and less like a brush.  

I have a ventilated spray booth, but again only use it for spray cans.  I use a dryer vent hose to connect the booth to a panel I use in regular sash windows.  However, in the winter here in Minnesota I am reluctant to insert that panel in the window and often do not use the hose. I find the filter in the spray booth removes most of the crud.  Yeah, I can still smell it, but no clouds of paint particles, just the solvent fumes.  My shop is 20 x 12 feet, so there is a fair volume for the fumes to disperse in.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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    September 2012
Posted by Nickg on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:47 AM

Thanks, I'm new to airbrushing so I wasn't sure.

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    August 2007
  • From: back country of SO-CAL, at the birth place of Naval Aviation
Posted by DUSTER on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:59 PM

use of Acrylic paints will help cut down the smell situation; won't eliminate it but compared to lacquer and solvent based paints they will not be nearly as strong.

then if you can find a way to create/buy a paint booth, the filtering, should go along way to reducing the  air borne particles and the smell.

good luck!  

air brushing is a great way to get rid of your frustrations  NOT!

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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