I did an interesting variant on this when I worked someplace where I had
access to a virtually unlimited supply of large air filters (used input
filters from the clean room...)
1. put plastic drop cloth on all the walls & floor.
2. Lower the garage door just far enough to wedge the filters in between
the door & floor (full width of the door)
3. Put exhaust fans in windows (with filters between garage and fan)
worked like a charm. with the large, high volume filters there was
plenty of fresh air coming in, and with teh filters in front of the
fans, not much going out.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Murray [mailto:ericm@lne.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:22 AM
To: Gil Fuqua
Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Painting small parts
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:52:26PM -0600, Gil Fuqua wrote:
>
> Any other suggestions for a paint booth. Any plans to make a small
paint
> booth?
I made one in a back room of a house once. It had a concrete floor
and had been used as a workshop by a previous tennant.
My paint booth consisted of plastic sheeting stapled over the walls
and ceiling, and plastic sheet on the floor. I bought a small cheap
box fan and some aluminum duct tubing. The duct lead from
a bottom corner of the booth about 10 feet to where the fan was
duct-taped to the ducting, then another set of ducting venting
taped on the other side lead out an outside door.
The fan was set to suck air out of the booth, and I would leave a corner
near the ceiling open for the air intake. This way the fan wasn't
stirring up dust. The floor accumulated paint dust after the first use,
so I would wet it down before painting. The compressor set outside the
booth, so it's fan would not stir up dust. I made the booth big enough
to fit motorcycle parts (frames etc) with lots of room left over so I
could set up and shoot more than one thing at a time and have room to
manuver around them.
The booth cost me about $40 worth of material. The only problems were
that the fan didn't move enough air to really clear the fumes, and
wearing a mask didn't completely take care of the fumes. And the room I
had it in only shared a single door with the house (no interior walls)
and paint fumes would leak into the house through the door.
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