Need heat in my booth!
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Suggestions welcome! I’m a small shop so no $20,000.00 make up unit, I’m thinking replace two of my over head lights (external on glass) with UVs? It’s been low 50s in the booth the last few days and matrix does not like to be cold. My shop is small so I have to have at least on bay door open or else the booth suffocates, so if it’s cold outside it sucks cold air into the booth. So area heaters won’t work….
look for a used air makeup system
Last one I saw was $6,000, rough shape and 2000 miles away. Plus running it will kill me in gas bills….
i don’t know what its like in your area, but we’ve had a ton of shops closing… We’re about to score one for i think 3-4K. I’d buzz your paint and material reps, they usually hear about all that stuff…may know of a place wanting to get rid of one.
here is one on ebay i just bought one like it for my booth. this one new is about 12k you can bit this price.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/130592864937?_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649&item=130592864937&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT&vxp=mtr#ht_500wt_1287[quote=”ding” post=23415]look for a used air makeup system[/quote]
No doubt, right now I know of 5 heated downgrades for sale all under 10k. Follow Jimmo’s advice.
I understand your pain. What we do to deal with our heat issue is to try to only run the exhaust fan when needed and we have a torpedo heater running when we are using the exhaust fan. That and accelerator in every coat of clear. I cut my fans off once the overspray has cleared out of the booth (some clears dont deal with this to well) And I use alot of the super productive clears that are designed to dry quick. The biggest thing that I found that helps is to make sure that your sheetmetal is warm before you even start spraying. I have seen some people stick torpedo heaters right in the booth, I am not real crazy about that idea but what I have done in the past is to run ductwork off a torpedo heater and then run it into the booth that way you dont have open flames in the booth with fresh solvents.
I would just try a few things at a time and try to document or at least remember what conditions you are spraying in, gun settings etc. This way if you have issues you can back up and readjust.Chuck
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