Hey Jeff,
I know what you mean by the meth lab. My friend and I are always up to late hours walking around and outside the garage/shop in full respirators with white cover all and latex gloves talking about powder consistencies, iron phosphates, zinc chromates, flow and melt characteristics and other suff like that. One day their going to see us outside at midnight waveing around shiny parts(quenching our parts in -5 celcius) in the cold and call the cops. The next thing you know there will be a mysterious unmarked van parked outside our garage/shop.
We're also getting quite tired of the rainbow effect we're creating in the corner of the garage. Right now our spray booth is just seperated by plastic sheets from the rest of the garage in the corner. We vacuum up the powder but some of it still stays behind. And theres also the green wooden steps but lets not go there (spilled some green powder on our inital experimental pc job) lol.
But this is what I was thinking of a spray booth (please chime in with design corrections/suggestions):
- A table on 4 legs about 4 feet off the ground. 4'x6' should be big enough.
- The left, back, right walls and ceiling will be made out of that aluminum foil backed board we were talking about here.
- The front we were thinking of making out of plexiglass on hinges. There will be a gap from the bottom of the table so you can stick the gun and your hands into the spray booth. This gap will be something like 12'' high. Sort of like a laboratory hood.
- For air evacuation we were thinking to buy like 2 of either 4'' or 6'' sized computer fans and mount them to the ceiling with the cheapest car air filter in front of them, something like a FRAM for a K car (maybe a furnace filter
). These fans would be powered by an old computer power supply.
- For light we were thinking a flourescent lamp in a plexiglass tube all sealed off. This would be placed on the ceiling or in one of the corners in the spray booth.
I was meaning to make a sketch for a while now, but no time, too busy powder coating.
What do you think?
etyrrany