I bought an exhaust fitting used for venting clothe dryers and pushed it in the 4” hole I just made in the foam panel. I also used the duct tape here to hold it in place and seal up any air leaks. I attached a 4” diameter, ninety degree duct elbow to the outlet on the fan box. Then I ran a 4” diameter flexible duct from the elbow to the exhaust vent on the window panel. I held the flexible duct in place with a 4” diameter clamp.
After everything was in place, I switched on the fan and went outside to see how hard it was blowing and to my surprise, it really seemed to push a decent amount of air. My next test was to mix up a batch of polyester glazing compound and fill the goalie mask I’m working on. I mixed it up in the booth and fill the couple of chips in the helmet. I could still smell the glazing compound while I was working with it, but the smell never propagated into the rest of the house. I’ll call this project a success as it fulfilled my goal of keeping stinky smells out of the house. As of this writing I haven’t done any heavy paint spraying, but I’m confident the booth will keep the overspray contained. I am also planning on trying the fan with and without some filter material in front of it to see if I can catch some of the overspray in the filter. If the filter material significantly reduces the airflow through the fan, I’ll probably eliminate it.
Jeff Simon
JT Airbrush Art and Design
JTairbrush.webs.com JTairbrushart@aol.com
Addendum to the Airbrush Spray booth article:
I primed the hockey goalie mask that I’ve been working on and the spray booth is working pretty well. I used SEM’s high build primer and the booth contained the overspray as well as the odor. I could see the fan sucking the overspray right out of the booth. I wore a respirator when spraying, but when I removed it, I could smell some paint fumes within two to three feet of the booth, but beyond that there was no smell and definitely no smell in the rest of the house. Overall I’m very happy with the performance of this home made table top spray booth and I figure it cost me about $25.00 to build.
Jeff’s bio: Jeff Simon owns JT Airbrush Art and Design. Jeff was born in Brooklyn, NY, but raised and currently lives on Long Island, NY. Jeff has been involved in some form of art, off and on for most of my life. A little over two years ago he decided to paint a mural in one of the rooms in his house. Having painted murals in the past with a regular paint brush and he found it a tedious task and never quite achieved the look he wanted, some that’s how he starting airbrushing instead of using a hairy brush. Jeff works out of his home studio, which lead him to build the table top spray booth explained in this article.
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