A spray booth. Make your own out of heavy triwall card (a box for a TV or hifi for instance) and duct tape. Or clip it together with big bulldog clips so you can fold it away when not using it. Use dryer vent hose to connect it to the duct. Get a kitchen vent fan kit and use the fan from that. You only need enough air movement to make sure the overspray is controlled and the paint thinner fumes get sucked away.
Whats the best way to control this?.I have a ''back room'' in my apartment,but its only like 12x5,there is a dryer duct line leading outside,but I need a way to blow it into it,it's on the floor.Thanks.
Am I glad now I kept every TV and hifi box for the last ten years?
And people thought I was a little eccentric :o)
(kim).
A few years ago, I bought a resin 3 piece fountain from the garden center at Lowes. It came in a milky white 1/8" thick corrugated plastic box which side seams were riveted. The box was about 30" x 26" x 41". I kept the box in my garage for those few years because it was very strong, light and too nice to throw away, and I figured I could use it for something in the future. I finally cut it up last year and made a
16" x 16" x 18" paint spray box to recreate the cardboard one I made 30 years ago. I taped all the seams and corners with 3M clear duct tape and used a 1/4" clear acrylic sheet for the door. The acrylic sheet was the same sheet that I had used and saved from my cardboard spray box door. What's nice about this one is that the translucent plastic allows some ambient light into the box. I haven't completely finished it yet, so it hasn't been used.. Pics in ABMS.
Actually, if you build a spray booth with a good filter, you may find how good the exhaust is even without venting it outside. I use a homemade booth with a furnace filter, and even when I remove the vent to the outside, the box filters out a lot of the smell and vapors. I think ordinarily a lot of that vapor comes from the surface of tiny droplets. These droplets are caught in the filter, and evaporate much more slowly than when floating in air. I did an article on this spray booth, but it was in a model ship magazine.
I put a vent flange- about a buck at the hardware store- on the outer face of the fan, and so a dryer vent goes on it easily. I cut a hole in a rectangular board that fits beneath a window sash with the sash raised, and mounted another dryer vent flange on the inside of that. So my booth uses a dryer vent hose from the flange on the fan to the flange on that "window" piece.
These are great ideas,like I said,i went the cheap-o route & wedged a furnace filter in a cardboard box & it just sprayed back out mostly,guess I was almost there!,that vevt fan will finish it.thanks again fellers!.
For anyone that doesn't have a duct already installed in the wall, to make a temporary vent that you can pack away, get some closed-cell furniture foam 4- 6 inches thick cut just slightly bigger than the window you want to vent out of (usually a fanlight or similar small window). Cut an appropriately sized hole to keep hold of a dryer vent on the outside and a dryer hose connector on the inside. Open the window wide and fit the foam rectangle into the frame: the foam will compress just enough to grip and seal, keeping the weather out but allowing you to vent your spray booth :-)
elegant simplicity.
Yeah, you need some sort of fan, and a baffle to draw the air through the filter and to the fan. I use a muffin fan, found in electronics supply places. Radio Shack sells them but some of the mail order places like Jameco are a bit cheaper. You need a fan of at LEAST 100 cfm.
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