Hello, I am a newbie to this forum, but I have been modelling for over 20 years. I recently finished a really neat spray booth and would be happy to send drawings and pics to anyone interested. I made mine from Stainless Steel w/ a bead blast finish. It also has a built in rotisserie for turning the model while painting so that you don’t have to. Works really well. It have a 280 CFM fan w/ 3 halogen lights wired so that you can leave just one on for a heat source while drying. I use the filter system that Micro Mark uses, so it doesn’t have to be vented. I didn’t want to poke a hole in my basement wall. Anyway, I know I am a newbie nobody, but I really like this forum and would like to contribute and glean all the info from you much more talented guys that I can.
Hi Ted, welcome to the fun house. There’s no such thing as a “Newbie Nobody”, only people who are just now finding the forum or getting back into the hobby. Glad to have you here.
There are several threads about spray booths, but yours is probably the best looking one I’ve seen. First class job on it [tup]
Since I work where do, it only cost me around $100.00 fan and all. In fact the fan was the most expensive part, $49.00 from SurplusCenter.com. I welded it all myself and blasted it as well. You could probably take my drawings and make one from wood for around the same amount. Let me know and I can email you the drawings.
Gip,
thanks for the insight. I do have an active charcoal filter under the fine particle filter and a large particle filter liner inside the box. I found the filter system on the MicroMark spraybooth and copied that. I also ran it by the DEQ guy that inspects our paint systems here at the shop and he gave me his blessings and a cheap place to buy the filters. I have sprayed enamel, lacquer, ans acrylics with no detectable odors in the room. And my shop is only 12’X15’. But I will keep your suggestions in mind and vent outside if necessary.
Nize set-up you got there, friend! I’m planning on buying or, better yet, building a spray booth myself since I’m still using an improvised one made out of an inkjet-printer box [:(]. What are the dimensions of your booth?
It’s small, more for armor and the like, 18" wide, and 12" X 12" in the cross section with the corners knocked off to reduce interior volume/wasted space. I can howeve add a tent to the outside w/snaps I haven’t put on yet to expand for larger models, ie the B-17 I want to start. This allows me to save on precious counter space. It gets smaller and smaller everday it seems. Luckily I have enough CFMs to triple my volume and still maintain the required velocity. as it sits right now, it will suck a match out at 3 feet away. There is no overspray in that litttle bugger!!!
