Taking a ghetto paintbooth up a notch
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I had an idea last year that I haven’t developed at all, but figured I’d run it past the pros on here.
I want to make a platform, about 6″ tall, that a vehicle can drive on and would have a grate down the edge of each side ducted out to a massive fan. I can get a 30″ fan with flexible ducting (might need to make some ducting that big… :wak ) that goes into the end of the platform. A down draft booth in my detailing bay, and put it away when I’m done! :dnc
painting the bottom edges of a car are painful sometimes anyway, since you have to get way down on the ground to see what you’re doing. have a little ramp up into the ‘booth’ wouldn’t be bad at all.
Any thoughts on this? :pcorn:
Not an expert – just a hack…so I know low tech. I’m looking into getting a 30″ barrel fan myself for the garage booth. The one I’m looking at moves something crazy like 7000 cfm. If your looking at 20′ by 8′ by 6″ that’s 80 ft^3 assuming you’ve got grate right out to the edge. I’d have to sit and work through the rest of the flow – but depending on the size of the booth area it sounds like it would work to me.
Thoughts – the grating is heavy (I use it for my plasma cutter) and not all that cheap. You could get by with formed ramps (bent 10 ga) with some expanded steel on the top. It would be easier to move IMHO.
For as cheap as used booths are right now, I would just buy one and be done w/ it.. I have seen used cross drafts go for 800-1500 in this area, side down drafts w/ heat as cheap as 3500.. When you figure your time and materials to build one it would be hard to beat a used one right now.
ya yrue i had a Semi Down draft by me go for $1200 was single phase and had two 24″ fans and 14 lights there are deals to be had thats for sure
[quote=”Joe@FCAB” post=20229]For as cheap as used booths are right now, I would just buy one and be done w/ it.. I have seen used cross drafts go for 800-1500 in this area, side down drafts w/ heat as cheap as 3500.. When you figure your time and materials to build one it would be hard to beat a used one right now.[/quote]
I hear ya.
Did I mention I’m doing this on the ‘down low?’ I’m not in a location where I can fit a real paintbooth, and since I’m an occasional user for personal use I’m just going to fake it. I have a room which is the size of what I’d like the booth to be, just with higher ceilings. I can put wall mounted lights in there, hose it down with spray mask, and install some high CFM fans and be good enough for the crap I work on.
I like the way you think Bob. My paint booth up until now has been in the middle of my dead end road with everything wet down, snap dry clear and hope for the best. :rock after a de-nib and buff my parts look better than alot of the ones I’ve seen come out of local shops, and damn near as good as a show car. I’m getting ready to buy 3.5L of black right now for my boat, it’ll be the first thing I spray in a real booth. I’m pretty geeked about it.
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