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[Alchemist]

My Brethren,

 

How do you paint your slot car bodies, especially when it's cold or rainy?

 

I've been either going outside opening the trash bin and painting above the bin.

 

When it's raining I have a cardboard moving box positioned by the garbage leaving the garage door open about 2 feet; though if it 's windy and rainy I have to close it to about a foot for ventilation.

 

Unfortunately, even with that attempt to contain the fumes it still seams to permeate the air in the garage and sometimes I forget to shut the door leading into the house my wife yells "Are you painting again?!?!?!??!"

 

So I did a search to see what was available that was ready for use and came across this unique portable air brush station on eBay:

 

 

I've watched videos of people using this in their workshop and it seems to work for them.

 

My concern is that my work table is in the garage with no windows and the garage door is 20 feet away.

 

I also noticed how slow (to me)  the vacuum draw is from the fans of this paintbooth, and I want to contain the overspray as to not circulate in the garage area (especially not allowing the fumes to enter the house

 

I also did not want to speed over $100!

 

So, I looked at quite a few YouTube videos of home built table top airbrush paint booths and what caught my attention was a few people using plastic storage bins, which I thought had potential for my use.

 

I foraged through all my stuff in the garage and did some imagineering!

 

This is what I put together:

 

I started with a transparent 12 gallon folding lid storage bin as the booth, that way the light on top of my work table will penetrate the bin and allow me to see what I am painting.

 

I had a extra vacuum attachment that I mounted to the side of the bin.

 

I'm using a mini shop vac to draw the fumes into the vac which has a bag to contain any vapor and exit the exhaust port.

 

I made templates to mount the attachment, of course I had to cutout the side of the bin and ensure it had a tight seal - no vacuum leaks.

 

Here is the evacuation port from the inside:

 

Evacuation port from the outside:

 

Here is a view ready for use:

 

You can see the yellow paint filter mounted on the evacuation port:

 

After spraying a coat of paint I can close the lids so that any overspray will remain inside and evacuated:

 

Here is the vacuum hose attached:

 

Here is the 2.5 gallon/2HP shop vac connected:

 

After everything is done I can put the booth away.

 

Here is a view of how everything is packaged inside the storage bin and ready to put away:

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Ernie

 

 

 

 

 

[mreibman]

Brilliant.

If you had a long vacuum hose, you could vent the vacuum exhaust port out the garage door Justin case.

Where did you get the evacuation port?

[Bill from NH]

The airbrusher who goes by the name Barbatos Rex on YouTube has done a couple interesting videos on spray booths non-vented to the outside. It sounds like you're all set now & happy with your current setup. I once used plastic tubs like yours in the photos when I moved office locations.