For Anyone Interested In A Paint Booth...

A paint booth is something I've been working on for several months now. Everytime I thought I had some extra money to build one, something happened that took it.

Well, a friend lent a helping hand the other day. He actually likes working wood. I've heard that some people do but never actually experienced this phenomenom (sp). I prefer sheet metal myself but since I'm out of the biz for now...I digress...

He threw this together in just a few hours. Granted, he had some scrap lumber and stuff laying around and he has a friend that runs a hardware store but he didn't even have a plan. Other than what we talked about at work the other nite.

He built it out of chipboard with some 1x2 pine for the frame work. It's 20" x 20" x 18" deep. He nailed a couple of strips of 1x2 running up the inside walls on each side a couple inches in from the back and put a little door over top of them. This is to drop in a couple of 20" x 20" furnace filters. Or maybe one if you use the good ones. For the rest of the top he put in a piece of plexiglass to let in some light. And he put a door on the front so I could just close up whatever I painted when done to keep out dust and dirt.

It needs a little finish work and some paint on it. I have a blower that came off of a gas heater that I need to clean up and will then mount on the back and run a dryer hose (metal hose) to a window. I'll take another piece of wood and cut to size to fit the window and probably put a louvered dryer vent in it.

Blowers/fans aren't inexpensive. You can find them at Grainger.com if you're in the states. I don't know if they sell internationally or not but you should be able to find a similar supply store just about anywhere. Here's links to some different Dayton blowers that Grainger sells. If you click on the red *Small Centrifugal Blowers* at the top of the page you can browse the list.

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611630891

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611769254

And here's a page that lists and shows several different ones.

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/catalog/viewCatalogPDF.jsp?CatPage=3431

At some point in the future I'll build another out of different materials with a few modifications but for now, this is great! If you want to see some pics of it, click on the link below. I haven't uploaded them yet but it won't take long. You can also see the Integra that my son and me built. If you're interested and have any questions just drop me a line...I'll draw up plans after I get some sleep if anyone is interested.

http://photos.yahoo.com/wingman_kz

PS...Please forgive the mess, I haven't had time to clean house.