Anyone using a Gen4 Spraybake?
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Currious to see if any of you guys are using a spraybake booth. I have been spaying in one for 7 years now and have had to just learn to live with the fact that it has no air flow. I think its the grate design. Anyone have any input?
[b]Underpaid Painter wrote:[/b]
[quote]Currious to see if any of you guys are using a spraybake booth. I have been spaying in one for 7 years now and have had to just learn to live with the fact that it has no air flow. I think its the grate design. Anyone have any input?[/quote]I’ve previously used the Spray Bake (don’t know if it too was a Gen 4 or not). Blue exterior, no hip lights, just the uppers (which are sodium lights IIRC, not colour corrected fluorescent).
They are better than most booths I’ve sprayed in…but I agree, the odd grate in the floor doesn’t seem to promote lots of airflow (not great for water bourne). And I found the lighting difficult to get used to. I always had a hard time spraying white, particularly on lower areas.
For the last year I have mostly used the Garmat 3000 w/ the booster fans. That booth seems to be a true workhorse!
The booth Im sprayin in has lights in the top and on the sides. It is very well lit and a very nice booth. I have tried to get my boss to have new grates built for it. The currant ones are about 5ftx2.5ft. They are solid plates with a about a two inch gap on each end for air flow. My guess is that this booth was designed to be used with a water wash filer. (No filters in the pit) When the booth was ordered the owner didnt want that option. It was retro fitted with floor filters and the original plates were never changed. Thus, no enough air flow. When I clear, I can acually see overpray floating up to the ceiling then eventually falling back down.
That is the same grate in the pair I used, and they DID have the water system…which doesn’t have a lot of airflow either.
They were great for small jobs, but as you mentioned, with bigger jobs the clear likes to linger for a littler longer than necessary.
Here is a shot of one of the spray bake booths…
[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1977/197/8/723495032/n723495032_2374684_522.jpg[/img]
Yep, Looks the same except I have lights in the walls. Grates are the same.
[b]Ben wrote:[/b]
[quote]That is the same grate in the pair I used, and they DID have the water system…which doesn’t have a lot of airflow either.They were great for small jobs, but as you mentioned, with bigger jobs the clear likes to linger for a littler longer than necessary.
Here is a shot of one of the spray bake booths…
[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1977/197/8/723495032/n723495032_2374684_522.jpg[/img][/quote]
wow i bet that doesn’t extract well, thought my booth had poor extraction, as mentioned maybe some custom made great would improve the airflow.0
Though i found on my booth when we cleaned the paint build from the extract fan and chimney this made a very noticeable difference to the drying of water basecoat.
To be honest the fan and chimney were not even that bad looking, but it certainly made a big difference.
[quote][b]nick@dunsdale wrote:[/b]
Though i found on my booth when we cleaned the paint build from the extract fan and chimney this made a very noticeable difference to the drying of water basecoat.
To be honest the fan and chimney were not even that bad looking, but it certainly made a big difference.[/quote]
Not a nice job!Thankfully we’re on a full service contract, so a guy did ours a few months back. Crawling around the concrete tunnels under our floor is not a job I’d fancy. I definitely noticed a difference, but that could have partly been down to the full filter change he did at the same time.
It was funny to see him crack up the fans for the first time after cleaning though – it looked like a volcano had erupted on our roof showering the whole site with dried up paint flakes :lol1
Do you guys know what kind of fans you have? The exaust fan in the spray bake looks like a giant squirrel cage fan. Its a direct drive so Im not even sure how you would go about taking it out to clean it. I looked it today and it have about a 1/16″ of build up on it.
We have just got a spray bake booth but its a rear extraction and roof inlet we are just refurbishing it be4 it goes in the new place. Ill let you know how it works etc in I hope the next week or so
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