DIY vs. Commercial Spray Booth?

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hi Jeff,

Pictures would be great. What type of fan did you use?

Thanks, Rick

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Tony and Aaronw - thanks for your comments on your experience with Grainger.

Cheers, Rick

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I’ll try to take some pics tonight and then I’ll have to find a host for them so I can post.

The fan is what I think they call a sealed pole fan. Paid about $80 cdn for it.

Jeff

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I have a DIY booth that I intentionally built large enough to accomodate a 1/48 B-1B. I used dual 4" bilge blowers ducted out a window with a dryer vent in it and it works really well. I have noticed that if I use rattle cans I have to spray in bursts, spraying for a few seconds then waiting a few seconds to make sure the amount of area in the booth can be evacuated. Otherwise I have a fog of paint in the booth.
With all airbrushing activities the blowers keep up fine.

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Hey Rick;

Here are some pics as requested. I just snapped them quick but you should get the idea of what I have done. If you have any questions just fire away.

So you could get an idea of the size the plane is a 1/48 Spitfire.

Jeff

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Interesting, Jeff.
A down draft hobby booth. Gives me ideas for my own and I may have to reconfigure it.

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Downdraft booths are the most efficient style from what I have read.

On another note I think Jeff needs to change that exhaust hose on his booth as it is too long, has a big kink in it and those corrugations disrupt airflow badly. [;)]

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Yes I do need to shorten and thus straighten the hose. It will help increase the airflow. The best scenario would be metal vent pipe.

Jeff

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I’m a new member of this forum and just came across this thread. Can you tell me how you mounted this blower to your spray booth? I’m considering buying a Dayton 273 CFM blower for a 30 x 30 x 30 spray booth I want to make ( to accomodate my Guillows balsa/tissue paper P-51 that measures about 24 x 27 x 12. Thanks!

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I’m a new member of this forum and just came across this thread. Can you tell me how you mounted this blower to your spray booth? I’m considering buying a Dayton 273 CFM blower for a 30 x 30 x 30 spray booth I want to make ( to accomodate my Guillows balsa/tissue paper P-51 that measures about 24 x 27 x 12. Thanks!

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If you get the blower from “Keenzo.com”, they have the mounting brackets also for about $10 each. They make mounting a lot easier. Mine was mounted on the upper left hand corner and exhausts out the window. Hope this helps.

Jim [cptn]