Painting guides

[Shodog]

You can eliminate dust in the air by getting a spray bottle with water and misting the air around where your spraying before you spray. This will wash the dust down.

[bromvw]

You can build yourself a simple cheap mini spray booth . All you need is a DIY store PVC cuttings mini greenhouse . They usually sell for under £20 .

Add a spotlight to provide some heat - in a enclosed space it soon heats the greenhouse . If you want to get fancy just use your house hold vac and gaffer tape the pipe through a vent hole to give you dust / fumes extraction .

As Shodog says a light spray with a mister within the greenhouse about a hour prior to spraying will kill any dust .

Its a little bit of effort to build one but IMO well worth it .

[wood5tock]

You can build yourself a simple cheap mini spray booth . All you need is a DIY store PVC cuttings mini greenhouse . They usually sell for under £20 .

Add a spotlight to provide some heat - in a enclosed space it soon heats the greenhouse . If you want to get fancy just use your house hold vac and gaffer tape the pipe through a vent hole to give you dust / fumes extraction .

As Shodog says a light spray with a mister within the greenhouse about a hour prior to spraying will kill any dust .

Its a little bit of effort to build one but IMO well worth it .

Yes I saw this a while back it's absolute genius. Until you just mentioned it I had forgotten about it though. I have got a vacuum cleaner for the garage only as well!

...Mmmm thinks

[bromvw]

Being 100% honest the only reason I built my own mini booth was that my beloved Mrs B go's totally insane if I dare to use spray paint within the house

[Mokei Kagaku]

If you build a painting booth yourself and intend to use paints with flammable contents, I highly recommend using an extractor fan of a type specified as "intrinsically safe", to avoid that the fan ignites the fumes with sparks from the brushes/commutator, heat, bad solder joint or whatever. A fan that ignites the fumes and at the same time feeds the fire by blowing air at it is something you don't want!

Intrinsically safe electric motors are required by law in similar industrial environments, and I dealt quite a bit with these problems when I worked as a project engineer for industrial battery applications. And before you conclude that it's not as important in a "small hobby environment", you might want to hear what I experienced.

I visited a friend's workshop in his hobbyshop where also batteries for RC-models were assembled from single cells in rather high quantities. So, they had mounted an extractor fan to get the smoke and fumes from soldering out. Two normal fans were used to extract the fans through a tube and up to the ceiling, where the normal ventilation system took care of the rest. It had worked well for years.

I went to the workshop to fix the motor of one of my RC-cars as I didn't own a commutator lathe yet and when the work was done I used a flammable cleaner. The fumes were ignited, very likely by one of the fans. A big "boom" and my friend saw how the upper half of my body was engulfed in flames. Thankfully, just the fumes burned and didn't ignite anything else and the fire was over within a second or probably less. Nobody hurt except that the tips of all the hair on my head, including eyebrows and lashes, had turned a light orange and smelled terribly. Thankfully there was a hairdresser next door who quickly cut away all the burned hair tips and cleaned the rest to get rid of the smell. All that was left was the feeling of a strong sunburn that was gone in a few days.

I was lucky, others may not be....

[sidewaysdave69]

a spray booth is my spring project.

as for the paint shodogs guide is spot on.

have a look at these guys if you want something different, the candy paint is amazing.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Custom-Paints-Limited?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

[SteveU30]

Some paint booth guides:

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=121102&id=27356

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=108761&id=23103

I built the second one with a tomato greenhouse I got from B&M bargains for a tenner!

[bromvw]

Second one is the same as mine Steve . I got mine from QD for about the same price last year . Well worth it . Cheap vac from Oxfam and a spot light in my inspection lamp and job's a goodun

[wood5tock]

Some paint booth guides:

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=121102&id=27356

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=108761&id=23103

I built the second one with a tomato greenhouse I got from B&M bargains for a tenner!

Second one is the same as mine Steve . I got mine from QD for about the same price last year . Well worth it . Cheap vac from Oxfam and a spot light in my inspection lamp and job's a goodun

Quoted Bromvw's post re DIY spray booth at 9:15, next thing I find myself in B&Q at 10:20 having bought this

All yours for £7.48

Or if you have a spare £99 you could go for the delux walk in Tamiya spray booth

Portable too,

I do actually own one of these and they are very good

[Vrdetailing]

Be careful with DIY and fumes !!

[bromvw]

Sorry VR but that's a load of testicals so long as your in a well vented area . I assume everyone has the common sense to not use a booth in a enclose garage or shed

[wood5tock]

I should have said that I use the big-un as an actual green house growing veg and flowers

Also from my proper spraying days I still have all my respirators etc Industry standard masks and air-fed for the nasty stuff. Even still have all over romper suits in stock when doing big jobs on bikes

[SteveU30]

I put my booth in the doorway of my shed and crouch down in the entrance facing in (if that makes sense). I find that by doing this I can close the door over behind me a bit if it's windy and this way you get minimal dust as I'm outdoors. It also means that as soon as you've finished painting you can close the shed door to prevent any flies landing on your work (unless they were already in the shed ). In the summer it has the added benefit of turning your shed into a paint oven and baking the paint on quick smart!

[Vrdetailing]

Sorry VR but that's a load of testicals so long as your in a well vented area . I assume everyone has the common sense to not use a booth in a enclose garage or shed

Just be careful. The same as with lipo... Know the risk.. Being careful with flammable gasses and sources of ignition is not testicals

However a 100ml can is not likely to reach the L.E.L in an open space..

I have seen a hydrogenation rooms wall blown down by people being careless mind

[Vrdetailing]

I paint in my loft for the record and it stinks the house out lol

[Boothy]

So just to clarify, charging lipos in the spray booth whilst spraying is a bad idea then?

[Vrdetailing]

Lol.. Indeed

[bromvw]

lol there's more chance of one of my farts causing a explosion than a single rattle can

[wood5tock]

I paint in my loft for the record and it stinks the house out lol

Does this mean there is no need to use your loft ladder when you decend, you just float down?

lol there's more chance of one of my farts causing a explosion than a single rattle can

!!!WARNING LIGHTING FARTS IS TESTICLES!!!

Or rather lighting them in the wrong direction can cause lack of testicles...

[Boothy]

I'm confused, can u fart whist charging lipo's or are beans to be avoided for at least 24 hours before?

[wood5tock]

I'm confused, can u fart whist charging lipo's or are beans to be avoided for at least 24 hours before?

As long as your bottom is in it's protective bag and your LiPos are in their protective bag...

And don't get confused in your spray booth and paint your bottom...

[Shodog]

As long as your bottom is in it's protective bag and your LiPos are in their protective bag...

And don't get confused in your spray booth and paint your bottom...

wow this thread denigrated quick

[Boothy]

That might be my fault

[wood5tock]

That might be my fault

[bromvw]

I think it was my fault