Spray Booths? Whats everyone using...

Spray Booths? Whats everyone using...

I usually just use an empty cardboard box.

we made one out of some formica covered chipboard (like what you use for making shelves) and put a bathroom extractor fan in the back of it leading straight through the wall (weve got a workshop in the attic so it doesnt need to ever be moved) or sometimes i just use a cardboard box in the garden if the weathers OK- i get moaned at for leaving multicoloured stripes in the lawn where the paint gets throught though :rofl:

I built my own spray booth, it's not that difficult and Klaus Raddatz wrote a useful tutorial which is available on Model Car Tech (http://www.crosswinds.net/~modelcartech/booth2.htm)

Converting an old food warmer from a restaraunt, built in fan, lights, regulator, and its on wheels

I dont use one. I like to keep the excess spray paint away from the model instead of it staying in a booth

If the CFM of the fan is adequate, the excess spray will be extracted, no?

If the CFM of the fan is adequate, the excess spray will be extracted, no?

Yes if they use a fan...but most i've seen dont have one

I usually just use an empty cardboard box.
Same here, I have a table in my garage that I use :p simple, but it works (and I spray only when I have all garage doors open).

I dont use one. I like to keep the excess spray paint away from the model instead of it staying in a boothWarren i thought u use microwave?

Warren i thought u use microwave?
Only put it in the microwave to allow it to dry because its a great dust free area

I just use my dad's work bench. I don't really like having all that fancy stuff just to paint a model. Maybe when I'm older I will, but not now.

I don't have one right now, but here's a couple of things I'll share with you:

- I built my old booth out of corrugated plastic. You get it at home depot in big 4x8 sheets (or smaller) and it looks like heavy cardboard, except it's white plastic. I just glued it together with a hot glue gun and threw a couple of 'muffin' fans in to extract air. Worked pretty good.
- A friend has a booth he made from an old 'printer booth'. It's a sound-proof container that they used to put dot-matrix printers in because they were so loud. It has a really nice plexi-glass top/front and seals up really well when it's closed. There's a small fan in the back too.

Murray

printer booth! great idea!!!! i'm sure you could get one cheap or even for free these days if you could just FIND one!!!!

Heres an old pic of my spraybooth. It has since been cleaned out and the lighting improved.

http://www.pbase.com/freelunch/workshop

Spray Booths? Whats everyone using...

I use the Artograph spray booth. Works very well, sucks the overspray out of the bottom through two filter layers.

Testors sells an OEM'd version of the Artograph spray booth.

I had an old Subwoofer box in my basement that used to have 2 12's in it, i cut a couple holes out of it and stuck muffin fans in em, then got some filter material and tacked it infront of the fans, all i do for light is put a 60watt lamp next to me shining into the box, works great, nothing fancy, but now i can spray in my house without it stinkin so much, now that i have a compressor, i need to invest in an airbrush!