I have been known to be a little frugal LOL.

$49.00 kitchen exhaust fan, $12.00 worth of flexible conduit and adapter and a leftover chunk of 1/4 inch MTF.

And voila!





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Looks good.

Outstanding design. Love the use of a kitchen exhaust fan. Sure wish I would have thought of that before I built mine.
Joel

Is it safe to use with enamels, thinners and such?

I don't see why not. For the millilitres of paint that gets used per session I really don't foresee any hazards.


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Nice work!

I'm going for the cheap prize.


Blower off of a broken Christmas yard ornament attached to a cardboard box.



Standard A/C filter cut to fit in the box.

So far I'm out $4 for the filter and a couple more bucks for wire nuts.

The yard ornament also came with a turntable and a string of lights. I just have to wire them up and then I'll have a set up that only need a decent box.

Good looking spraybooth sauceman that was one good idea does it completely filter out all of the paint fumes, or do you just have it running out of your window?

My hobby room used to be my laundry room, so I vent it out the dryer vent hole in the wall



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Uh oh! Conjuring up a vision of no longer needing that laundry-room... "Years back I discovered a bar of Peerless Soap - the best bath-soap money might buy - Since which time, I've used no other!" Just funnin'!

I was going to try that route myself - use the available dryer-vent as my booth-exhaust port. Alas, that vent opens into my garage... One of a few disturbing little designer stupidities I found when I moved into my current house. But I pretty much won after all as I have this fancy cooking-top with a nicely-lit (halogen floods) hood... and a powerful down-draft vent right between the burners! I simply park an opened-up cardboard box over that down-draft and turn her on! The range hood floods provide gobs of light, plenty of room to move stuff around in, and the fumes and stuff rush down and out.

On a cautionary note: Please do be careful about what type of electric motor blowers and fans you use in your spray-booths... those fans and motors made to be used as range-extractors and dryer extractors may be better protected against sparking which can ignite fumes - other motors may not be so safe.

PS: SWMBO squirmed a little at first whenever I set my spray-booth up, but she's become used to it now! "Just be sure none of that paint you throw around ends up on my granite counters or in our food!" Harrumpf!

Bob

Last time I built a house, I had a drier vent added just for my airbrush adventures. Before I got the ducting in place, Mice invaded my basement. They tried eating the paint off of a P-51 spinner and packed my drill press full of dog kibble.

Alas, both the house and mice are gone now...