Hey all,

Im considering purchasing a small (24m x 24m) industrial building in the newcastle area, to build and work on my minis (its a pretty cheap property) ... i just wanted to know if anyone has ever set up a cheap spray booth ... can u buy them or is it cheaper to build your own?

suggestions anyone?

lucas

hmmm. that would be cool..

Not to sure on cost.. from the good ones I have seen you need lots of lighting and extraction fan. best bet would be to go to a spray painter place and ask, have a look at what the got..

or get one like this..

http://www.autobodytoolmart.com/booths.html

yeah i saw those ... not bad ... i think im going to construct my own booth and just purchase a exhaust system and lighting ... or ill just make one up hehehhe

I had thought of doing something like this

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

i want something permanent

I'm sure it wouldn't be very difficult to build one.. They seem simple enough. Are you planning on making it for all cars? or a bit smaller for the minis?

yeah i aint worried about the construction ... that should be relatively easy ... its just a big box really ... going to make one big enough to fit a normal sized car in it, not just minis.
im mainly concerned about the ventalation/exhaust system and possibly the lighting

Spray Booths ventilate through the floor IIRC. Building the floor ventilation system would be the hard part and that wouldn't be too difficult. Lighting is the next hard part. You need heaps of it in the right places. Actually a hoist inside a spray booth would be cool to lift the car a metre or so.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

vents through the floor .. that wouldnt be hard to construct .... just build a raised floor 100mm of the bottom and run pipping through it .... hmmmm ... ill definately take that into consideration

No, use steel grid flooring. It must be removable for cleaning as it will get heaps of dirt in it. Get some BIG inlet filters and a BIG exhaust fan(s). The only problem then is the exhaust has to run through a filtration system that exhausts to the outside of the building. You can now see why they cost lots of money. If you shortcut it all the EPA will be on your case. If you exhaust it to the interior you have not solved anything.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

we've installed another booth at our workshop late last year, for a proper Seetal downdraft spray booth new costs around $53000 dollars installed plus its your responsibility to have the necessary power supply and gas supply to the booth and then cost to commission it.

at the end of the day you wont have much change from around $65000 if you rang a spray booth manufacturing company.

S/H spray booths sometimes come onto the market and are particularly cheap usually in the $5000 - $10000 price range and removing/dismantling and reassembling into the new premises will normally set you back around $18-20000 and most likely local authorities will require you to register as a plant etc etc.

but thats all for the proper stuff...................

you could probably build an area that resembles a booth and will enable you to spray confidently for cheap and as long as you dont tell anyone what your doing etc.

good luck access to a booth is very handy

I would think the lighting should be intrinsicly safe (spell)... could be wrong but it would make sense considering the flammable nature of what you will be spraying. Prob not likely to set the place on fire but could prove to be quite an oops...

When I worked at Creswell in '91 we built a booth in one of the Jindivyk hangars at the control range. It was a duo of extractor fans but drawing the fumes through a water table arrangement(supposedly to trap the paint molecules). Worked a treat however needed regular cleaning. Using polyurethane 2 pak it was good but acrylic just gummed up the works...

Rob Forsyth

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

Try the trading post. I've seen quite a few in there but they are secondhand.