Paint Booth for Full Respray

[bairjo]

I made a paint booth years ago. I used pvc pipe and fittings so it was easy to store when i was done. Used rolled painters plastic on all sides. I didn't put water on the floor for humidity. I didn't it was a good idea at all since that can affect the paint so i rolled plastic on the floor and drove the car in. Used a box fan to pull air out with a filter on an inlet window and a filter on the outlet. Worked out rather well for what i needed.

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by bairjo

I made a paint booth years ago. I used pvc pipe and fittings so it was easy to store when i was done. Used rolled painters plastic on all sides. I didn't put water on the floor for humidity. I didn't it was a good idea at all since that can affect the paint so i rolled plastic on the floor and drove the car in. Used a box fan to pull air out with a filter on an inlet window and a filter on the outlet. Worked out rather well for what i needed.

Did you use a typical home box fan? I just pulled the trigger on a 24" high speed fan on eBay as I was getting sceptical about the box fans' ability to remove enough vapour. I got it for $65.00 USD and it's 1/3 HP compared to the what 1/25 HP of the box fans? Maybe the box fans would have been fine, but for an extra ~ $20.00 I feel more confident with the 24" high speed.

Here is the fan I bought... It's still not an enclosed motor, but I've got yards and yards of fiberglass furnace hammock filter so I'll rig up some kind of loose fitting 'hat-like' cover for the motor to at least keep the overspray from mucking up the motor internals. The hammock filter breathes quite well, so I'm hoping it won't heat the motor up.

https://www.globalindustrial.ca/p/hv...-high-velocity