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10-30-2016, 05:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Reno,NV
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Downdraft paint booth
Hello all. I am looking for information I saw regarding building a small downdraft paint booth with chicken wire on top. It used HVAC filters avaliable at a hardware store. thanks
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10-30-2016, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estes Park, CO
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Booth
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Originally Posted by BigD'sRV14
Hello all. I am looking for information I saw regarding building a small downdraft paint booth with chicken wire on top. It used HVAC filters avaliable at a hardware store. thanks
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I built one from hobby board with a child gate as the spray table. Works great. Easy to modify and build from 1/4" ply almost any dimension. Blower is a Rule 240 bildge blower plumbed to a wall dryer vent. It's documented in my blog. Fuse page.
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10-30-2016, 06:07 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pocahontas MS
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An old aluminum window screen works great as a spray surface, too, and small parts won't fall through.
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10-30-2016, 07:06 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Clarkston, MI
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This is the downdraft table I built. It has worked well for me.
It is a 2x4 frame wrapped with a blue tarp. The top is plastic mesh fencing. The ends have 20 inch box fans with furnace fans duct taped over them. It has the advantage of being easy to take down and store when not in use.
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10-30-2016, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Central MA
Posts: 42
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Originally Posted by leok
This is the downdraft table I built. It has worked well for me.
It is a 2x4 frame wrapped with a blue tarp. The top is plastic mesh fencing. The ends have 20 inch box fans with furnace fans duct taped over them. It has the advantage of being easy to take down and store when not in use.
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Total newbie here. Why are the fans necessary? Ventilation?
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10-30-2016, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
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I used a shortened fuselage shipping crate. Wire mesh on top, a furnace filter and 20" box fan screwed to the bottom. I used the cut out piece from the fan opening spaces off the floor of the box with short pieces of 2x4 to keep some of the spray out of the filter. It worked pretty well.
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10-30-2016, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estes Park, CO
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Exhaust
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Originally Posted by PilotFuse
Total newbie here. Why are the fans necessary? Ventilation?
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They are exhausf fans. I suggest intrinsically safe or squirrel cage. If you use box fans, use them to blow so volitile fumes are not passing through them.
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Estes Park, CO
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Donated 12/03/2019, plus a little extra.
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HS SB, empennage, tanks, wings, fuse, working finishing kit
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I cannot be, nor will I be, held responsible if you try to do the same things I do and it does not work and/or causes you loss, injury, or even death in the process.
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10-30-2016, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Southwest
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My plan
My plan is to build a simple 4' x 2'x 2' box out of 1" pvc and 6 mil plastic tarp. I will use a 20 " box fan from walmart and hpa furnace filter. I plan to suck air down when priming then flip the fan around and blow air up thru the grate ( and filter) when drying to keep the bugs off, if needed. This will be for primer only. And i hear primer drys pretty fast. I was going to make the front to back pvc pipes removable so that i can break it down to store.
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10-31-2016, 04:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Clarkston, MI
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Quote: They are exhausf fans. I suggest intrinsically safe or squirrel cage. If you use box fans, use them to blow so volitile fumes are not passing through them.
I should have mentioned, I used Stewart Systems water based primer exclusively. No worries on flammability.
Without the fans on, overspray will come back up through the mesh contaminating the shop.
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