My thoughts exactly..... looking forward to details.... jw Joe. E. Wallace jwallacep51 at gmail.com
On Sep 27, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Jeff York <jeffyork40 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Wayne, > > I am anxious to see your pictures. It certainly sounds like a paint booth > design improvement over what I am doing. It also sounds like it would be easy > enough for me to modify my booth very quickly to produce the same results as > yours. > > So, I anxiously await. > > Jeff > > > ________________________________ > From: Wayne Tokarz <pietdriver at icloud.com> > To: 'Jeff York' <jeffyork40 at yahoo.com>; 'KRnet' <krnet at list.krnet.org> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:18 PM > Subject: RE: KR> gathering forum idea > > > Having owned a body shop and built many paint booths over the years, I have > developed an excellent design for one offs and "back-yard" types. While > still using a used furnace motor and fan. The principle is very easy, DON'T > draw out the overspray and fumes, rather "blow" them out. It's a positive > pressure design. I will try to post some pics this weekend. I mount the fan > inside a box with two HEPA furnace filters on the sides. This is mounted to > the ceiling and outside wall of the paint booth and blow air into a wooden > plenum, (~ 4' X 8' X 2') that is also mounted on the ceiling but inside the > paint booth. The plenum has cut outs on one face and the bottom for 4 > furnace filters. The entire booth is made out of sticks and poly. At the far > end of the booth is my "door" and it has along the bottom edge 3 furnace > filters. For those that are mathematically inclined, the number of filters > "blowing" air into the booth exceeds those "exhausting" out, there for you > get a pressure differential or positive pressure inside the booth vice > ambient air outside. You will have a combination of cross flow and > downdraught at the same time! The real benefit is that the positive pressure > in the booth will not just blow out the exhaust but will serve to blow out > every crack, crevice, joint, etc. in the booth, vice sucking in air, (dirty > unfiltered air) from those same areas. I control the quality of air going in > and the thus have a cleaner safer paint booth. > "Sucking" the over spray and fumes out means having a potentially > dangerous situation where the flammable fumes are drawn across an open > electric motor as well as gumming up the fan blades very quickly. Mine is > permanently mounted in a corner of my hanger and has folding walls that > swing out of the way when not in use. Takes 5 minutes to set up when I need, > of course that is not including moving everything out of the way first! LOL! > Over the years this system has served me very well and produced some pretty > darn good work. > > Wayne > > > I am more than happy to share any knowledge or experience I have with > painting and finishing and leave that up to Larry. I am currently getting > ready to paint my SCCA sports race car and will try to take plenty of > pictures of the process and my home made paint booth. The booth is a pretty > simple design with a down flow (air) idea. The idea is to basically pull air > in from the top and filter exhaust air our of the bottom back side. Its a > simple erector set style idea using 2 X 3 lumber and polyethylene clear > sheeting, a few dense micron furnace filters to draw air in from the top and > push them out with a squirrel cage fan out of a used furnace to both filter > and exhaust air out of the bottom. Its all put together using screws so > that I can take it apart to store in my hanger. I have thought about re > doing it with PVC pipes and PVC elbows to allow putting it together and > taking it apart without using screws. Simply slip it together. > > Jeff York > KR2 > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
