Adam Baker
Active member
A couple people mentioned liking the paint booth I showed in a couple of my current projects, so I figured I would post up what I have so everyone could see it.
The basic structure is a 24" cube box, built from 3/16" plywood, w/ 2x2 used to reinforce all the joints. Its all screwed together w/ silicon caulking used to seal all the joints. For lighting, I have a small 14" fluorescent light fixture that give great lighting.
For a blower, I'm using a squirrel fan that moves ~495cfm. Its a downdraft booth, which I've found seems to work about the best. The other good option would be a cross draft booth w/ the blower mounted on the back. I ran it as an updraft booth for awhile, when I first built it, but I had issues w/ the paint residue on the air filter falling off onto the models sitting in the booth.
Just recently the booth was installed into the opening its in now, and a permanent exterior vent was installed. I'm using 4" dry ducting to vent the booth.
The most recent addition is the racking that I'm using to work on. I picked up some wire closet shelving from Lowes, and trimmed them to fit how I wanted in the booth. Before, I had to set my paint stands & such on the air filter, and it didn't work very well. A couple times I had the stands fall over onto the air filter, screwing up paint jobs. Now w/ the shelves, it works great. Enough area to support paint stands and that sort of thing, but leave plenty of openings for good airflow. The shelves are semi-permanently mounted w/ clips, but I can lift both of them up, to get at the air filter for easy filter changes.
About the same time that I added the above wire shelving, was a switch box for controlling the blower fan, and giving me 3 electrical outlets. Its powered by a 12-2 electrical cord that I keep plugged in, so all I have to do is flip a switch to turn the blower on & off, and I have 3 outlets that I can use to power the light, air compressor and my dehydrator that I use for drying painted parts.
The basic structure is a 24" cube box, built from 3/16" plywood, w/ 2x2 used to reinforce all the joints. Its all screwed together w/ silicon caulking used to seal all the joints. For lighting, I have a small 14" fluorescent light fixture that give great lighting.
For a blower, I'm using a squirrel fan that moves ~495cfm. Its a downdraft booth, which I've found seems to work about the best. The other good option would be a cross draft booth w/ the blower mounted on the back. I ran it as an updraft booth for awhile, when I first built it, but I had issues w/ the paint residue on the air filter falling off onto the models sitting in the booth.
Just recently the booth was installed into the opening its in now, and a permanent exterior vent was installed. I'm using 4" dry ducting to vent the booth.
The most recent addition is the racking that I'm using to work on. I picked up some wire closet shelving from Lowes, and trimmed them to fit how I wanted in the booth. Before, I had to set my paint stands & such on the air filter, and it didn't work very well. A couple times I had the stands fall over onto the air filter, screwing up paint jobs. Now w/ the shelves, it works great. Enough area to support paint stands and that sort of thing, but leave plenty of openings for good airflow. The shelves are semi-permanently mounted w/ clips, but I can lift both of them up, to get at the air filter for easy filter changes.
About the same time that I added the above wire shelving, was a switch box for controlling the blower fan, and giving me 3 electrical outlets. Its powered by a 12-2 electrical cord that I keep plugged in, so all I have to do is flip a switch to turn the blower on & off, and I have 3 outlets that I can use to power the light, air compressor and my dehydrator that I use for drying painted parts.
