Homemade Spray Booth

[bluriusz]

Hello everyone!

For some time I wanted to buy one of the spray booth offered by major manufacturers, but end up with worries about the price and the look which is a bit - in my opinion - not very durable.

So I've read dome topic here and there about custom made spray booths. They were nice and quite easy to do, but I needed something different. I wanted foldable spray booth, that takes less space and it's easy to transport.

My spray booth is 600mm long, 250mm high, and 250mm deep.

When folded, looks like this:

I've added a handle on other side to make it even easier to carry:

Everything is secured with two hooks on sides:

This is how it works. All sides have hinges, top side fold onto back side, left and right go on the base, and then the back on top:

One of the sides up:

That's all done, and at this time I discovered that this spray booth has magic abilities. Once you set it up, a beer appears inside;



Everything is secured by drilled holes on top, and rivets pushed inside:

There was a problem where to store rivets when not in use, so I drilled another two holes in sides:

At the moment, that's it. Now waiting for some parts to make it safe to use indoors. The back side will have a radiator fan along with standard spray booth filter (80W power! so I'll need to use some potentiometer to control the power and make sure the fan will not eat smaller parts of the models), powered by old used PC power supply. At the back will be detachable flexible ducting vent hose.

Will update you with the progress.

Cost at the moment:

MDF board 12mm - about £13

4x pair of hinges - 4x £1,28

Hooks to secure - £1,49

Handle - £2,79

7" radiator fan - £19,99

Flexible hose 6'', 5m long - £6,75

Vent pipe reducer (8'' to 6'') - £5,49

Used PSU - about £10

Booth filter - £2,50

All together about £65 for a very stable and powerfull spray booth..

If anyone of you would like to get the plans, I can e-mail them for you.

[Guest]

Very nice Bart! Seems we're on the same page as I'm building something similar

Mine hasn't yet made a beer appear though

Cheers

Patrick

[Lee W]

Nice one Bart!

I copied my home made spray booth from the military modelling magazine a few years ago; this consists of a large (ish) plastic storage box (donated by parents), extractor fan (donated by friends)+ wiring/plug and a length of tumble dryer hose (surplus to requirements! ). In theory it's about £25 to build, I would take s photo but it's trapped in the shed and there's big 8 legged freaks in that there out house

Sorry to have pitched in and gone on, mine doesn't look as classy as yours, it doesn't produce beer or any other alcoholic beveragesops:

Lee

[monica]

nice Brat

good to see people making simply things instead of buying them,

thats a good idea Lee to add an extractor fan if using enamels o_O

[Guest]

Bart just an enhancement worth thinking about.

Think it worth cutting a large square hole in the roof and attaching a Perspex (B andQ) roof. For airbrushing you need a lot of light to see the finish and quality you are achieving..

Not recommended to have a light in the booth. Plus a light shining directly into the booth gives a poor light.

Laurie

[bluriusz]

Thanks for an advice Laurie. Didn't even thought about perspex in the roof. At the moment I'm using a large cardboard box, and a light source from a side. Works for me, but the dust and fumes are the problem.

With this booth, and an extractor that won't be a problem. I want to buy two clip-on led lamps. Cheap option, about 3-4 quid each, but first need to read about the best option. It will be attached to the edge on top side. I'll also need to think about diffusing the light to get rid of the shadows.

@monica: This booth will have a very powerful fan at the back

[Guest]

Bart, you could try LED light strips. They're not expensive & they're safe, without much heat build-up.

Here's a pic of my WIP booth:

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Add a sheet of opal perspex (or even greaseproof paper!) to diffuse the light. Thats my plan.

Cheers Patrick

[bluriusz]

Lvpscalemodels: Thanks Patrick! That's something i had in mind but didn't know how to describe it And that's even better as they are 12V, so it will work perfectly with PSU.

[eddiesolo]

Are you adding a fan? 12v AC fans are the way to go if you are.

Si

[Guest]

Hello everyone!For some time I wanted to buy one of the spray booth offered by major manufacturers, but end up with worries about the price and the look which is a bit - in my opinion - not very durable.

So I've read dome topic here and there about custom made spray booths. They were nice and quite easy to do, but I needed something different. I wanted foldable spray booth, that takes less space and it's easy to transport.

My spray booth is 600mm long, 250mm high, and 250mm deep.

When folded, looks like this:

I've added a handle on other side to make it even easier to carry:

Everything is secured with two hooks on sides:

This is how it works. All sides have hinges, top side fold onto back side, left and right go on the base, and then the back on top:

One of the sides up:

That's all done, and at this time I discovered that this spray booth has magic abilities. Once you set it up, a beer appears inside;



Everything is secured by drilled holes on top, and rivets pushed inside:

There was a problem where to store rivets when not in use, so I drilled another two holes in sides:

At the moment, that's it. Now waiting for some parts to make it safe to use indoors. The back side will have a radiator fan along with standard spray booth filter (80W power! so I'll need to use some potentiometer to control the power and make sure the fan will not eat smaller parts of the models), powered by old used PC power supply. At the back will be detachable flexible ducting vent hose.

Will update you with the progress.

Cost at the moment:

MDF board 12mm - about £13

4x pair of hinges - 4x £1,28

Hooks to secure - £1,49

Handle - £2,79

7" radiator fan - £19,99

Flexible hose 6'', 5m long - £6,75

Vent pipe reducer (8'' to 6'') - £5,49

Used PSU - about £10

Booth filter - £2,50

All together about £65 for a very stable and powerfull spray booth..

If anyone of you would like to get the plans, I can e-mail them for you.

[bluriusz]

@eddiesolo: Yeah. There is one on the way to me. 7'' radiator fan. It's designated to cool the car, but will do the job for me. I'll make some remote to control the power It's 12V as well, but more power (80W), so that's why I need a PSU or something similiar, but this seems to be the cheapest option

[Guest]

Hi Bart I would like a set of plans if you wouldn't mind thanks

[bluriusz]

Hi guys,

Have received pretty much all parts required to complete this build. The fan is great, powerful, maybe a bit noisy, but will make a perfect symphony with the compressor .

I have cut round (more or less) hole in back side and mounted the fan. Turned out that vent reducer fits perfectly over the body of the fan and with a bit of superglue it's secure as hell.

The most annoying thing is that I thought I'll buy cheap used PC power supply, but is nowhere to buy those. Every computer shop I went to said that they send them back for recycling. Unfortunate. Well, new one doesn't cost a fortune, but I wanted to build it as cheap as possible and thought that will save a tenner on PSU. Well, I'll go to car boot sale on sunday, hopefully will be back with PSU, not another 2-3 kits

I've tested whole machine on my PC and works great. Airflow looks like just the right power when supplied with only 5V, but that was without the filter on.

Tomorrow I need to buy small mesh to secure the filter from the inside as at the moment fan isn't covered and might shred it

I also need a switch to make it easier to turn on and of but it might be tricky, as PSU will be probably damaged if switched on without any load in the circuit. Plus to start the PSU I need to short the cables in main power cable.

That's the inside view.

Just some thoughts about the light. Many of you suggest the perspex on at least top side, but it's not cheap to replace that size and thickness, so I'm considering at the moment, cutting a rectangle hole, 3/4 of the size and put the thin, 2mm (which is cheaper than 1mm) perspex on top. Possibly sides as well, but haven't decided yet. All together will be around 10 quid, where led strip light cost about 6 quid for 5m.. Decisions, decisions..

Anyways, now I'm hunting for a PSU.

Thanks,

Bart.

[Ian M]

If you are putting a window in the top, you might want to consider glass. An old hardened glass shelf would be ideal. Glass is a lot easier to clean than perspex and a lot harder to scratch.

Ian M

[bluriusz]

@Ian M: yeah, I think so, but again it will be more expensive, more difficult to attach and waaaaay heavier. At the moment it's heavier then I wanted it to be, so glass is not an option