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Ideas for this situation?
Posted by ben1227 on Thursday, August 9, 2007 4:44 PM
I'll be receivin my 1st AB tomorrow (Party [party]) -I have to paint indoors in my modeling room (which is fairly small) because humidity outside is horrible and 100+ degrees during the summer and 20's in the winter...I can NOT afford a spray booth and can't cut holes in the wall for any vent system...besides wearing a respirator, what can i do about paint and thinner fumes?
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Posted by Bgrigg on Thursday, August 9, 2007 6:20 PM

Get a good respirator, and a half-decent fan. Open the window, position yourself so that the model you're painting is between the open window and the fan and try that. Spray booths can be very complex to handle lacquers, or very simple to deal with acrylics. Acrylic paints are less toxic than enamels and lacquers, but inhaling dried bits of plastic still isn't good. The paper or cloth masks are pretty well useless, and should only be used while playing "Doctor" with the missus!

Here's a tutorial on making a very basic spraybooth. It's pretty easy!

http://www.briansmodelcars.com/tutorials/tutorial/65

I've seen a similar one where the guy was using a translucent plastic box, but darned if I can't find it! I know I've posted it somewhere on the FSM forums, but I'm not searching through over 4000 posts! Propeller [8-]

So long folks!

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Posted by ben1227 on Thursday, August 9, 2007 6:30 PM
I'm making that! But...that won't help a whole lot because i don't have that much room on my table and i have no windows in the room! ...So the paint fumes would just be blown out the back and circulate around the rest of the house. Oh well, i'll just blow the fumes into the kitchen Approve [^]
.:On the Bench:. Tamiya 1/72 M6A1-K
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Posted by Bgrigg on Thursday, August 9, 2007 6:50 PM

That'll make the wife happy. They say they always want to be included... Whistling [:-^]

Back that puppy up to an open window and the fumes can go outside to play!

So long folks!

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Posted by Triarius on Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:57 PM

Acrylics only! Preferably those that can be thinned with distilled or deionized water for spraying, such as Polly Scale.

Organic vapor respirator. All acrylic hobby paints contain some organic compounds that you don't want to breathe.

Get a breeze-box type fan, and move the painting portion of your build temporarily to a room with a window. All you really need is a reasonably stable surface like a tray table in front of the window with the breeze box in it. 

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

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Posted by ben1227 on Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:21 PM
This is intimidating! Shock [:O] I'll just warn the family to evacuate and I'll blow my nice, sweet fumes into the kitchen...just kidding, but i've really got to figure something out!
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Posted by ABARNE on Friday, August 10, 2007 12:09 AM

Ben, if you're planning to airbrush in a room that literally has no windows and no way to vent to outside, I would backtrack from my earlier post on your other thread and second Ross's acrylics only advice.  Even at that, it sounds a miserable environment in which to airbrush.

Andy 

 

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Posted by usmc1371 on Friday, August 10, 2007 7:27 AM

Can you spray somewhere else in the house?  For instance, you can take a box fan, tape a furnace filter to the front, put the fan in a window blowing outside and spray in front of it.  Stay with acrylics.  Put a drop cloth down to catch overspray.  Spray a little at a time, maybe only 15 minutes.

Jesse

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Posted by ben1227 on Friday, August 10, 2007 8:43 AM
I guess that's my only option...even with a water trap its VERY humid where i live.
.:On the Bench:. Tamiya 1/72 M6A1-K
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