DreamKnight
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Welp, I'm going to take a journey into making my own DIY Spray Booth so I'll use this thread to document that journey.
The whole goal to this DIY booth is to try and be cost effective, easy to make, when storage using minimal space yet when in use, roomy enough to be usable and of course the fact of what it is to be effectively functional! I could just buy one but I like the whole idea of making one.
So the journey start with research. The structure is the easy part. I can construct it out of wood or acrylic plastic or even using one of those storage boxes. Trying to figure the material that's easy to find which really can be all three. I'm leaning towards using acrylic sheets for looks and I've also had experience working with that material for my fish tanks. Either way, that's for later.
The hard part is finding a source to pulling enough air out of the spray area.
I've checked out fans from your local hardware store and decent and powerful are some of the stove fans but I wanna see if there's an easier alternative for construction.
So being a computer geek, I go back to my roots and see if I can go that route. I can pull a power supply out of an old computer box and power up a computer fan. There's your power supply (regulated even!) and it's already constructed and since I'm going to put one to two fans to this PS wattage isn't going to be a problem.
From what I've seen, a spray booth you'd by from the market pushed about 250-290CFMs for your average hobby spray booth. That's going to be tough finding one but I did find this:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12tfexhisp.html
Price, just can't beat it for $30. For noise my new Iwata Smart Jet runs about 48 DBs. This fan screams out 65 DBs so it will be decently noisy but with a fan with that much power, there's no getting around it. However, to cut down the noise, we can go with the same maker with a lower powered fan but installing TWO. I saw a DIY post from another site on how a guy did his. If I went with two fans, I'd be looking at something like this:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12ff.html
This would bring the price up to $50 on the fans with the combines pull of 300+CFMs
So that's where I'm at. I'm going to do more research on this since this is the most important factor to a spray booth.
The whole goal to this DIY booth is to try and be cost effective, easy to make, when storage using minimal space yet when in use, roomy enough to be usable and of course the fact of what it is to be effectively functional! I could just buy one but I like the whole idea of making one.
So the journey start with research. The structure is the easy part. I can construct it out of wood or acrylic plastic or even using one of those storage boxes. Trying to figure the material that's easy to find which really can be all three. I'm leaning towards using acrylic sheets for looks and I've also had experience working with that material for my fish tanks. Either way, that's for later.
The hard part is finding a source to pulling enough air out of the spray area.
I've checked out fans from your local hardware store and decent and powerful are some of the stove fans but I wanna see if there's an easier alternative for construction.
So being a computer geek, I go back to my roots and see if I can go that route. I can pull a power supply out of an old computer box and power up a computer fan. There's your power supply (regulated even!) and it's already constructed and since I'm going to put one to two fans to this PS wattage isn't going to be a problem.
From what I've seen, a spray booth you'd by from the market pushed about 250-290CFMs for your average hobby spray booth. That's going to be tough finding one but I did find this:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12tfexhisp.html
Price, just can't beat it for $30. For noise my new Iwata Smart Jet runs about 48 DBs. This fan screams out 65 DBs so it will be decently noisy but with a fan with that much power, there's no getting around it. However, to cut down the noise, we can go with the same maker with a lower powered fan but installing TWO. I saw a DIY post from another site on how a guy did his. If I went with two fans, I'd be looking at something like this:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12ff.html
This would bring the price up to $50 on the fans with the combines pull of 300+CFMs
So that's where I'm at. I'm going to do more research on this since this is the most important factor to a spray booth.