[sage]

I've done my best to search all the threads here for these answers and I've learned a lot but I need to get on with the buildup of a PC system. I purchased quite a few Caswell paint colours that looked good from all the nice pictures you guys have posted. I have a gun. I'm going to build a booth something like one someone posted on here with an exhaust fan sucking out from the back through a furnace filter or a slot in the bottom back of the box and have a Hepa (or similar) filter bag on the end of that to catch the really small powder.
I've decided on a kitchen oven for curing.
The questions that still remain are, should I build this setup out in the garage (which is already full) or can I get away with this in the basement. How much fumes is going to be created by the oven? would a small exhaust fan like a range hood venting out the window take care of any problems there?
I already do anodizing in the basement with NO problems. I have a range hood over the small (6gal) tank and I have no odors in the house with that set up. I'm not sure about the curing oven though.
I'm sure I could give it a try but I don't really want to haul the oven into the basement and wire it up to find it needs to be elsewhere.
Also, does it make any sense to recover powder? Is there a lot wasted? I'm not really concerned if a reasonable percentage is wasted as long as it's a reasonable trade off agains tthe effort to recover it properly. The paint is likely to go out-dated before I use a whole pound anyway, but nodody likes to be foolishly wasteful, I just don't have any experience to know which direction to head yet.
Any advice would help here for a once-in-a-while painter.


Sage