Airbrushing indoors.

[patrick181]

I've noticed some of you are airbrushing indoors right off the shop table. How are fumes vented?

[Water Boy]

Fumes are not really a problem for, as I use waterbased paints. My problem is overspray. Thats why I try to use some extra foam or cardboard to make a houseishthyp structure. Kinda looks like those cardboard thing you used to use for science fair projects to show your work and papers on.

[wilky]

Fumes are not really a problem for, as I use water based paints. My problem is overspray. Thats why I try to use some extra foam or cardboard to make a houseishthyp structure. Kinda looks like those cardboard thing you used to use for science fair projects to show your work and papers on.
at the back of that you could take two or three furnace filters and a box fan to make a exhaust so the over spray gets sucked away from you and trapped in the filters.

[Water Boy]

Ohh!! Thats a great idea.

[Tommy D]

Do it all the time... just call me rainbow lungs!

Tommy D

[Chriscru2]

I recently became an airbrush owner myself and being disabled couldnt be going back and forth inside/outside lugging all the tools and things needed to spray "model cars" so instead of dropping $100's into a spray booth I went to the grocery store and got a Bounty Paper Towel Box from the stockers one night and made it into a homeade spray booth. Basically went and bought some a/c filters from Lowe's/Home Depot put a hole in the rear of the box smaller then the airfilter, taped it "first go" took a old pc fan that I had in the parts bin and rigged it into the inside of the box so that the fan and filter could filter out the paint. Also managed to pick up a small flourescent light that runs on AA's to mount in the top for better lighting. Now I am sure that I could make something really nice if I wanted to take the time to and make it more user friendly and neat looking but it works great.. If I had my camera I would snap some pictures sorry..

Here's a few cool and NICE examples on the model car forum
[img]http://niklas.grundstrom.org/workstation1.jpg[img]
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Another great example http://public.fotki.com/nascarnut/paint_booth/
Instructions check out post by "nascarnut"

[Dragon 2]

I got a old forced air fan that someone replaced in there home heating system.(free)I cut a hole in my shop wall and mounted the fan over it.I took the piece of wood that I cut out and made a flap so when the fan is on it blows open and when its not it closes.It works great although its not explosion proof. I painted a car in there . I do my air brushing right in front of it and I dont even smell the paint!!

[Pilot44]

I just stick the subject to be painted out the window and blast away. Don't work so good when its blowing and raining though. Otherwise on larger stuff. I hump the compressor and stuff out to my backyard shed.

Jim

[Accu157]

As an alternative to air filters (not that you should omit them), if you build a spray booth, you can blow the waste airflow through a sealed off turbulent section behind the booth. Just stagger coroplast or plywood vertically so the air has to make a snake-like motion. The walls will capture some of the over spray, and if you blow it over a sealed trough of water with a shallow clearance, that will capture a lot of the particles as well, and release what is left back to the indoor air. It is probably best not to use paints that are clearly toxic, otherwise I would have no problem using watercolor or golden fluid acrylics indoors with a setup like that.

[J Morgan]

While I was deciding on what high priced filtration system to buy, I thought I would try this. Turns out it works great. 95% of the paints I use are acrylics so smell usually isn't a problem. I do use a little Krylon and it does smell but this captures the paint.
I just bought a $6 box fan on sale, cut both sides of its cardboard box out. Taped one side to the fan, other a cheap filter.

J

[TJK]

J,

Great idea! simple and effective! Is there any danger of fire from paint build-up on the fan motor?

Can you please tell us about and post some pics of the Phantom in the background? It looks great.

Tom

[J Morgan]

Haven't had any trouble with buildup yet and have used it a lot. Easy and cheap to replace though.
Pics of the Phantom are in the SHOW OFF YOUR SCHEMES thread here on this forum. Build thread on the pusher jet forum.

J