Need help bulding a Spray Booth.....

[RH Customs]

I need help on bulding a spary booth. Can somebody help me as far as instructions go. I was thinking that it would cost around $50.

Any help is good.

Thanks

[MaxxThrasher]

That all depends on how eleborate you want your booth. For some it's as simple as cutting the side out of a cardboard box and viola!, you have a spray booth. Go one more step and cut a small hole in the back of that same box and insert your shop vac hose. Now all the fumes get sucked out the back. Want quieter? Mount a dryer hose to the back, lead it to another cardboard box taped to the back of a box fan and lay the fan in the window facing out. Get more elaborate, get some cheap computer fans, wire them in series, cut a vent in the back of the box, mount them to the box and put a A/C filter in front of them.

Have you looked at booths? Just what kind did you have in mind?

[rcaddikt]

I made mine with range hood vent and floor kitchen cabinet. Made a small "pedestal" to get up higher off the ground. I have it vented to a 5 gal. (half full) bucket of water ("water trap") right now. But I can vent out a window if need be as well. Too cold to have a window open this time of year.

Like Maxx said, just depends on how far you want to take it or how well you want it to work.

[RH Customs]

Well I wanted something made from plywood and using a venthood. Do they haveany carbon filters of somwthing like that. I'm just not sure how I would route the fumes away and not have to cut a hole in the garage wall.

[NotWalkinBlind]

Is there a window you could use? If so, you could use a length of dryer vent hose and cut a hole the same diameter as the hose in a piece of plywood (dimensions: about 8" tall X the same width as the window opening), attach the hose to the plywood with an exterior dryer vent on the opposite side, and just open the window a bit and put the plywood underneath it *when* you're painting. Then take it out when you're not painting so you can close and lock the window.

You should put some filter material of some sort somewhere in the line... the paint will adhere to it and only fumes would go all the way out. You will probably only have to change the filter about every 20 bodies you paint. Ask at Lowe's or Home Depot for filter material that comes in sheets you can cut with scissors.

[RH Customs]

What about useing a kitchen vent hood and somw type of filter?

[Piggy89373]

That's the same type that rcaddikt was talking about. Another option is to break out some wall studs and some plywood such as this
http://forums.radiocontrolzone.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=49413&stc=1

[microrcdude]

HAVE GREAT LIGHING! trust me, its good to have LOTS of lights.

[NotWalkinBlind]

Got that thing up and running?

[RH Customs]

Nope not yet, still getting ideas.