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spray booth/shower stall idea

updated mon 27 sep 04

 

Marcia Selsor on sun 26 sep 04


I think this is a brilliant idea!!! I love the drain hole aspect. Thanks
On Sep 26, 2004, at 6:22 AM, John Bandurchin wrote:

> I built a spray booth using a fiberglass shower stall - paid about
> $200 for
> it. This might seem excessive, but it's absolutely smooth inside and
> we can
> spray it down after using it and recover the overspray drain into a
> pail
> under the drain hole. I already had a good size fan that I mounted on
> top
> for the exhaust, and put a "ceiling" about 1 foot below the top. I
> have 3
> furnace filters mounted there to catch some of the stain we spray, so
> it
> doesn't collect on the squirrel cage blower vanes.
> I had to cut about one third of the shower stall off using a circular
> saw -
> that was a bit tricky to get the cut straight but isn't really
> critical. I
> bought a metal stand to mount the whole thing on.
> I also bought 2 small under-counter fluorescent light fixtures and
> mounted
> them vertically on each side, neat the front, to illuminate the work.
> With everything, it may have cost $300. Not as big as Laguna's spray
> booth
> for about $1,100 but very nice to use. We could spray a pot 3 feet
> tall if
> we could make one that big - but we'd have to fire it somewhere else!!
> Biggest surprise was the amount of time.- It took about 10 hours or so
> to
> get it all figured out and finished.