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After way too long without a proper place to paint, I recently cleared a storage room, built some walls, installed some lights and heating and installed a IKEA kitchen fan.
It turned out as a simple but great room to paint my models.

Nice

The dimensions do suggest you're repurposed a certain sort of "building" though

Yeah, the dimensions would fit...

While I'm at it...
I'm using Tamiya spray cans when painting a body, and it leaves the room very dusty, even if the fan is on max.
Are any of you using an airbrush to paint bodies, and is that more efficient in terms of "waste" after a paint job?

larbut wrote:

Yeah, the dimensions would fit...

While I'm at it...
I'm using Tamiya spray cans when painting a body, and it leaves the room very dusty, even if the fan is on max.
Are any of you using an airbrush to paint bodies, and is that more efficient in terms of "waste" after a paint job?

Do you have an air inlet? Remember you have to let air in if you are trying to take it out (fan)

HI!... I don't have that problem. I paint my cars in my 45'x 24' heated and air conditioned garage. lol!

andyaus wrote:

Do you have an air inlet? Remember you have to let air in if you are trying to take it out (fan)

I do, sort of.. I leave the door to the next room (also a storage room) slightly open, and this room has a fresh air vent letting air in.

After looking at this yesterday, I might have too much restriction in the exhaust, the final outer vent... I might have to do something about that.

I think the best you can hope for with a set up like that is to extract some of the fumes - paint is heavy & unless you can shift a monster amount of air you're never going to get the excess paint (which is drying before it hits anything, hence the "dust") to be sucked up ... theoretically you could mount the extractor vertically on the bench & spray immediately in front of it, so the inertia of the waste paint is already carrying it towards the filter - I've seen a setup like this in a photo of an airbrushing "school", I don't know how practical it is, presumably the driving factor there was the instructor not breathing in all the fumes from a dozen students merrily puffing away all day for their entire working life...

An alternative would be to have something disposable (card, paper, cloth) very close behind the thing you're spraying so the waste paint is still wet when it hits it - but I don't seem to remember that working particularly well either, though it did make things a bit easier to clean up after.



People may scoff at the crudity of my spray setup (fix a bit of wire somewhere on the bit to be sprayed, dangle it from one hand & spray with the other), and although it does have significant drawbacks, paint residue/dust isn't one of them

Lars you can put water under your pieces or make a water "cascade" to replace vertical air flux. My mother had this "cascade" system on her polishing machina and it was more efficient than the air for the dust. At work, we have a small paint cabin which use the vertical vaccum and it works good and it dries the paint faster.

stingray-63 wrote:

Lars you can put water under your pieces or make a water "cascade" to replace vertical air flux. My mother had this "cascade" system on her polishing machina and it was more efficient than the air for the dust. At work, we have a small paint cabin which use the vertical vaccum and it works good and it dries the paint faster.

Yes, water attracts dust, but there might be some practical problems with having a waterfall indoors, but good idea. I'll google some and see what comes up

stingray-63 wrote:

Lars you can put water under your pieces or make a water "cascade" to replace vertical air flux. My mother had this "cascade" system on her polishing machina and it was more efficient than the air for the dust. At work, we have a small paint cabin which use the vertical vaccum and it works good and it dries the paint faster.

Looking back at the second post, having water under your pieces, shouldnt be the problem.
and make a water cascade? well just flush.