Not sure the puritans amongst us will approve, but when I needed a spray booth to paint my model, the last thing on my mind was spending upwards of $200!
My answer? build my own booth.
Now, a disclaimer, I make no assertion that this will be as good as a bought booth, but it has to better than nothing, all booths should be used with the appropriate mask as well!
Total cost for this was only $20, due to the fact that I had most of the stuff laying about, use a little imagination and I'm sure you can do something along the same lines.
For the fan I used a 120mm PC fan, it has ok airflow, but is brushless and sealed, so it should at least last as long as it takes to finish the model, hopefully longer.
First things first, the booth itself, for my purposes, I had a large TV box, big enough to get the victory in, and work with some space. Clearly the smaller the booth, with the same fan, the better the air flow will be!
I bought a dryer outlet kit from home depot, 8' flexi pipe and a fitting to go into the box
To this I then mounted the flexi pipe:
With that complete, I then started on the fan duct, now square plug, round hole!! so some compromise was made in efficiancy by using a cardboard square duct. I simply glued in the fan(god bless amazing goop glue
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I used the box lid from the kit, quite apt really.
Glued all sides then tied up the duct with rope(could not be bothered to dig out the sash clamps for this project)
With the duct made and dried, I taped up the edges, and poked the fan wire through the side. This was then taped to the flexi pipe after slitting the corners to allow the duct to "form" slightly easier to the round tube.
And there it was...done:
My desk sits underneath the small window in the basement, so the booth sits on the desk, with the window slightly open, the duct pokes out and bends to the side so it does not blow back in the basement. Now I have no filter on there as yet, I'll add one if needed, but that will hinder airflow, it's not a huge fan!
If the flowers start taking on a slightly more enamled feel, I'll add one,lol
So there you go, not fancy, probably not as effective as a pro unit, but certainly cheaper! and it does me for now. It has made a differance! when I primed the hull, I used a rattle can, and the smell stayed for quite a while, using the new "super booth" there was very little odour in the room, I also drape a clean trash bag over the front to keep any dust down in the booth. Leave it running after spraying for a while and we're all set.
Hope this is usefull to a few people, I know there has been a couple of threads on this lately, so it may spark a few ideas....instead of sparking paint fumes
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