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 Posted - February 22 2012 : 11:03:40 AM
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For those of you who use air brushes/spray cans, where do you do your painting and how do you keep paint off surrounding areas? I usually just cover the workbench in newspaper, but I'm wondering if there's a better way  
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 11:24:59 AM
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Hey Cheez:
I've wondered this myself living in an apt. I worry about overspray. Thought about doing it outside but the best time to model is when it's winter and that of course introduces a whole other set of problems.
A hood seems like a good idea, but the ready made ones are expensive and I have no place to build one myself in the first place.
So any original ideas guys?
-Gareth
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 4:49:18 PM
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I took a large shipping box and duct taped the flaps open to make my booth. I will use it in the garage with the car removed and have used it outside in nice weather with an upside down garbage can as a base. The booth has really cut down on the dust that gets on the wet paint. The box is about 22" x 28" x 20" deep.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 4:54:43 PM
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AF;
Do you use a fan of some kind?
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 5:39:51 PM
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I just go outside and find a box and use it for painting and make sure the wind will be blowing away.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 6:21:32 PM
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Juston you're welcome to visit and paint, Um, but you might want to get a "painting Parkha"! 
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 6:52:59 PM
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I just spray into a box too.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 7:11:49 PM
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Gareth, I live in the very bottom state on the east coast as in Florida!
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 7:50:07 PM
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I built a spray booth from Masonite/hardboard and some pine for a frame. I use a replaceable household filter and exhaust by placing a box fan I. Reverse behind the filter. Then again, it is in my garage with the garage door open when I airbrush or use spray cans. I generally work close to the garage doorway to ensure outside exhaust from tche garage interior.
I wouldn't try to do anything in an apartment, as the cloud of particulates has nowhere to go, even if forced thru a filter. The aerosol residue that is not held by the filter will remain in suspension and get breathed in by you and eventually settle on interior surfaces.
It's like using hair spray in a bathroom. Even with an exhaust fan, the residue covers all surfaces over time and that then collects more dirt as well.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 8:06:12 PM
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 8:48:30 PM
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Romcat,
I do not have a fan and maybe this spring I might look into that. I think if I'm painting outside I try to have the wind at my back.
For an apartment you could vent it to a window with a little ingenuity.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 9:36:41 PM
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quote:if you saw my basement floor you wouldn't ask
Originally posted by derfberger - February 22 2012 : 8:06:12 PM
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same here...
I never have luck outside. You want a sure-fire way to control the wind direction, just fire up a spray nozzle in the direction you don't want it to go....
I've thought about building a spray booth, but haven't been forced to. I have always been a little leery of the warnings that paint fumes are explosive and open-frame fans can cause sparks. I've wondered if a bathroom bent fan would be an affordable alternative, because I just can't bring myself to spend more on the hood than I have on my entire painting shop otherwise. Then again, I don't really like breathing the stuff either. I just use a light touch and spray only what is absolutely necessary. Acrylics are also less noxious and easy to clean.
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 9:44:20 PM
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I like using House Of Kolor paints on my model trains, etc. I found it best just to "inhale deeply' to keep any fumes from escaping and poisoning someone...
Walt
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 10:39:01 PM
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Sure as hell Walt few people know more about painting vehicles than you I expect, says the ex-Taper/prepper!
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Posted - February 23 2012 : 02:03:06 AM
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IF the weather outside is right (aka warm enough and not too humid). I'll pull the car out of the garage and spray in there. The floor is pretty messed up so I'm not that worried about overspray. And even with the door open there is no wind or drafts that come though. Once done spraying I take the part into the basement to dry and leave the door open just so the garage vents a little.
During the winter however is when I work on more models, so I have this.
Its a bad picture. But its a box I cut up and fit a box fan in one end pulling air through (on low, if you use high the paint bypasses whatever your trying to paint). In front of the box fan is a cheap 20"x20" furnace filter I had laying around. With the box fan on it holds the filter via suction and takes over-spray right into it. I bigger filter or small box would be a bit more ideal and it would close off the gaps you see. But look way up on the ceiling in the photo. My basement was built as a smokers lounge for the previous owners. Hence they installed a standard bathroom fan down there. After I'm done spraying something I let both fans run for at LEAST 15-20mins afterwards to clear any hint of fumes. Works like a charm!
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Posted - February 23 2012 : 05:13:04 AM
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In the Florida winter and early spring, I will let my painted items sit in my booth and allow the paint to "cure", as there is lower humidity. Once the humidity starts going up, and we use the AC regularly, I bring the painted items in the house to "cure" overnight. While the garage is dry, the air inside it is still closer in humidity to the outside, so I do this to ensure that the paint work isn't compromised with a slower dry time under less-than-optimal conditions.
I think I have some construction images of my inexpensively-built paint booth and will post as a separate topic in a day or so.
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Posted - February 23 2012 : 07:40:27 AM
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Being in Commercial Electronics, I have access to some interesting items. When my company moved a year and a half ago, I saved some big chassis's with 48 volt fans in it, and gave them to some model train guys who wanted to make paint booths, came with appropriate power supplies as well. The 4 inch square fans seem to be sealed up enough to not risk a fire from the fumes, and with 4 pulling across a foam filter, they work well enough for the guys.
Boxes work as well, they're cheap and disposable. So far, I haven't tried to do any painting yet, so I haven't set up a booth anywhere, but I do have the means when I finally decide to. No matter what, you'll have to deal with the floating particulate residue, fumes, etc. I have a basement stairwell I have been thinking about partially enclosing for use as a small "shop" area outside my house, where I can do dirty work, yet be accessible to the main house. Being currently filled up with wood I've saved, that hasnt' happened yet. :/ Hope to get more organized this year and do some serious clean-out.
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