My spray booth (Updated with more pictures inside)

Suddenly my two pizza boxes and duct tape dont looks so appealing.

 

Looks like it will be a great spray booth. Enjoy!

TAdan wrote:

Suddenly my two pizza boxes and duct tape dont looks so appealing.   Looks like it will be a great spray booth. Enjoy!

LOL same here, except mine is a big box (cardboard) with 3 PC fans exhausting the air out the window lol Cool booth, youve gave me an idea ;)

I'll update with some more pictures of the booth tomorrow. We've taken all the things inside the house now and down to the basement so assembly will commence tomorrow.

Oh, and I remembered now what the booth is made of. Originally it came from the lab-section at my dads work, but one side of this booth (a laboratory booth) was corroded by some acidic fluid so they trew it away and my dad salvaged it. He just switched out the corroded side and did some minor modifying. One of these booths would surely cost alot more than the average spray booth since it was originally created for lab work.

Anyway. Expect some pictures tomorrow. I'll start putting togethere the electronics for the lamp and fan then.

That is looking really good Viktor! I need to build me one of those, but dang it all, I got nowhere to blow the fumes out, unless its the window, and having the window open while I paint doesn't sound to appealing when its 20 degrees outside... yeah, I know, I'ma  wimp

Thanks Colin!

Here I got some new pictures. I wired all the electronics today, I had some major brain-malfunctions but in the end it turned out really good. I had accidentally wired the lamp and the fan so that I couldn't turn the lamp on or off and the fan wouldn't even spin. I fixed it quite easy though just by changing a cable. Ah, enough talk. Here's the pictures.

(Haven't finished the wiring completely yet)

The booth after I mounted the lamp on it. Did this just to see how it looks, did the wiring work later.

The airfilter. On the outside of the booth this is actually made of two paint bucket lids and a airfilter from a Volvo.

The spray booth is supposed to be a closed compartment so you only have clean air inside it. Going to drill a hole through the side later and have a regulator on the inside of it where you connect the airbrush. Got to fix one of thoes panels that are similar to the ones you have on sandblaster machines where you stick your hands into a pair of gloves and work with inside the box.

Outside of the booth with most of the wiring completed.

Fan control and on/off for lamp. This was taken from a cooker fan. Works great. The box was just something I found out in the garage.

View of the booth with drying compartment attached to it.

Opening into the drying compartment. There is supposed to be a 'shutter' (couldn't find the real word for it) here that you can open and close when you put things in to dry. Have yet to make this bit though, but it should be taken care of later today. There is also a small 'cart', or whatever to call it, that is supposed to be inside the drying compartment. You drag out this cart, put whatever parts you have painted on it, push the cart into the drying compartment and close the shutter for it to dry. Heated (only very little) air will also be blown into this compartment for the paint to dry in an ideal temperature.

Side view of the booth + drying compartment.

I'll update with more pictures later.

Hey, thats looking really good! So when did you say you wanted to start on mine J/K, Have you given any thought to putting a turntable or something like that on the inside or set your stand on? I have seen a couple booths like that and it looks like a pretty handy thing to have?

Haha. I'm going to take all the measurements of the booth later and post them up here for people to use.

I suppose a turntable might be something to add. I'll see if I can get hold of one. There probably is one somewhere in the garage, but finding something there is like finding a needle in a haystack. No joke.

Hey Mindless, awesome booth and thank you for sharing with us. It actually helped me solve some problems that I've had with mine and triggered some ideas. I'm in the process of building something kind of similar, well thought I was almost done LOL.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to have those gloves like a sand blasting booth too, so it's closed to the outside elements. Your car air filter trick was one helpful idea... don't know why I couldn't think of that... duh...

Couple of questions for you, I know, I'm impatient. 

Having the booth sealed and using a 4" air intake would then mean I could drastically cut back on a blowers CFM requirements and there is really no size restrictions on the booth... wouldn't it?
I mean, no need for one of those 480 CFM jobbies.

What is your plans for supplying heat to the drying booth?
I thought of a light bulb or uhm... my wifes food dehydrator.

Any particular reason for the perforated metal flooring?
At least it looks like metal.

I'm still wondering about the best way to plump the air source for the airbrush?
Have a hose (short and/or coil type) and fitting attached inside the booth or run a hose through a rubber seal so I can adjust the length in the booth as needed. Humm...

Thanks again for sharing

Haha, thanks for the nice comments.

Regarding the 'gloves-thing', I've been thinking about that too but haven't really figured out a good design for it yet. Going to have a look at it this weekend I think.

And regarding the blower: Yeah, I guess. I'm not too familiar with measuring airflow (this booth already has that stuff taken in mind since it was premade, we only repaired it and modified it) so I can't tell for sure. But yeah, I guess you could use a smaller blower for the booth.

Myself, I'm going to use a blower that you can have three different speeds on. I had two blowers but one of them didn't have the three-speed option on it and it made quite alot of noise when you started it up so I kinda ruled that one out. Got to find a suitable fan for the blower though. The one I have now is too high (about 2", should be like 1½") so you can't put the blower-housing together without the fan touching the housing.

About the heating, I was thinking of having a lamp that gives away quite alot of heat in order to keep the drying booth warm.

Reason for the metal floor? It's actually stainless steel (it weighs a ton), and it's there for some practical purposes. The idea of it is to make it easier to clean the booth once in a while, and also use it as a stand for parts when spraying.

As for the airbrush/regulator inside the booth. I had something similar in mind too. Drilling a hole and then have some kind of rubber seal in the hole and then put the hose through that and connect it to a regulator inside the booth.

Oh, and Colin: I found a turntable in the garage. The gods of fortune must smile on me.

Thanks for getting back to me with the info.

Good luck in finishing it.