How to safely airspray when I'm inside?

I took the advice that I got on youyube and cut the bottom out of a plastic tote& stuck a fan in it. It's in front of a window of coarse & I used a furnes filter on the inside. WORKS GREAT & the whole thing cost around $20.00!

mitsdude

Any of the commercial spray booths would work fine for an airbrush. Trying to use one with a spray can would not turn out well.

Why do you say that?  I have a commercial spray booth and have used it with spray cans without any problem.  Granted, I have to change the filter more often, due to the amount of over spray, but have never had a problem.

Paul

Don, you really had me with the homemade airbrush!  Thanks for clearing that up!  

I've fashioned together spray booths with big panels of cardboard from the local auto body shop.  (They get body panels in these cardboard containers.)  For ventilation I used a bathroom fan fashioned to the top or side depending on the revision or version of the booth I'd constructed.  Duct the fan to a plywood panel that inserts in your window of choice thus blocking the cold outside air from filling the room.  The NIOSH respirator cartridges spoken about should be made for "organic vapors", and it's helpful to have pre-filters on the respirator cartridges in case you have a heavy amount of spraying to do such as using a touch up gun.  The only draw back is the risk of fire and explosion if you use an unsealed electric fan and get too strong of vapors going through it.  I have used a touch up gun with mine, and was nuts enough to clean the gun by spraying paint thinner through it into the booth.  No explosions or fire, but I may have been lucky.  I wouldn't do it with lacquer thinner!

I would agree with Don on airbrushing right at the bench. I too have a homemade spray booth, but I only use it when I'm painting a large surface area with Alclad. The room I airbrush in has a window fan with two separate fans. I can set both fans to exhaust out or set one on out and the other on in to exchange the air. And I always wear a 3M brand NIOSH  vapor  respirator.

OOPS, typo. I mean to say homemade spray booth, not homemade airbrush!

I have a good homemade airbrush, but I only use it for rattle cans, not airbrushing.  To me, there is so little overspray when i airbrush that I airbrush right at my modeling bench. I just make sure there are no kit parts directly near the front of the bench.  An airbrush should not be cranked way up to act like a spray gun.  Think of it more like a brush, but one that does not leave brush marks.

For cleaning, I have a homemade cleaning station, which is a jar with a couple of pieces of plastic water pipe sticking out the top. I spray into that and it collects most of thinner when I clean the airbrush.

It depends on what you mean by "airspray". I.E. Airbrush or Spray can.

Any of the commercial spray booths would work fine for an airbrush. Trying to use one with a spray can would not turn out well.

To use a spray can you will need to build your own. $300ish depending on how much building material you already have. The major expense will be the exhaust fan. Of course this would also work with an airbrush.

This subject has been discussed on here many times. Just do a search for "spray booth" and you will find enough material to keep you reading for many hours.

Commercial spray booths are expensive, but you can build an inexpensive one, with a fan to exhaust outdoors.  There have been recent threads here on the subject. If  you can't do that, get a 3M brand NIOSH  vapor  respirator from Home Depot or Lowe's for about $30 which will protect you from the fumes, and open the windows.