Some of you may have read an earlier thread about my plans to build a paint drying booth here http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16408
I went to get some materials today (to build the drying booth) and stumbled on another idea. Perhaps it's genious. Perhaps it's entirely stupid. Thus I present it here for your unbiased comments and thoughts:
Background:
- I don't have a spray booth yet, and need one soon
- I want to have a drying booth, but don't have one of those either
- I'd like to have a place to take pictures of my projects
- I hate too much clutter
Inspiration:
- there was another guy who used a utility cabinet or something a while back to build a paint booth. Couldn't find the thread, but he essentially used a small 'pantry' cabinet or something....
- walking around Canadian Tire when I saw this (on sale for $70):
The plan:
- make the above shown 'microwave cart' into a nice little painting station, complete with drying booth and photo studio.
The details:
- the 'cart' opening would be the paint booth. no complexity here, just put a fan and some sort of filter on the back wall and I think she'd be pretty good to go.
- I'd install some lights along the inside top to light the work area. I was thinking of using those halogen undershelf 'puck' lights? That might be a little too 'hot' for use around solvents, so perhaps a undercounter flourescent instead.
- the 'drawer' would be converted to a drying booth. I'd buy a piece of plexiglass to cover the drawer, and install a small light bulb/fan in the back of the drawer to generate some heat and circulate air. I'd likely have to cut a hole in the back of the cabinet too to exchange air from the drawer outside of the cabinet. Possibly a 'vent' (with filter) in the front of the cabinet drawer that would be the air 'intake'. The drawer would be plenty big enough for 99% of the stuff that I would ever build.
- I'd cut a piece of bristle board that could temporarily be put into the 'paint booth' section and serve as a background for photos. The already mentioned 'lighting' would light the subject for taking photos. Additional outside lights could be added too if needed.
- the bottom storage section could be for.....storage? My air tank and fridge compressor would fit in there pretty nicely. The top of the unit would also be a nice little shelf for various spray boms and other related goodies.
Well, what do you think? Genious... or total insanity? I'm interested in your honest thoughts (what am I missing?) and ideas that might make this better. One of the key drivers here is that I really like well built and organized tools. Clutter is my kryptonite (although somedays I feel like I'm killing myself...) I was about to build the seperate drying booth (from the above thread) and I just kept trying to figure out where I was going to put it. Then, as I thought more about also building a spray booth, I kept wondering where I was going to put all of this stuff...
It just seems too easy? What am I missing??
Murray