Spray Booth

[sjcampbell]

I have had it spraying either outdoors or in temporary "things" so it is time I built a spray booth to spray Timeless on canvas and fine art paper - note I'll be spraying water based only with a Wagner (no solvent explosives). The area I have is 3 metres by 2.4 metres (10 foot by 8 foot) - an unused area of a shed. Most of what I spray will be up to A2, but some canvases will go up to 40 x 60 inch stretched (44 x 64 inch before stretching) - but only a few a month of these.

Is this area big enough?
How do you guys set up your spray booths?
Is an "insect screen" drying rack OK?
What dust prevention measures did you take?

...and any other pitfalls I should know

Cheers
Steve

[neile]

I'm digging around trying to find the link, but in a recent thread on spraying someone pointed to plans to build an inexpensive and easy-to-setup booth from a woodworking magazine. Alas my search skills are failing me this evening, perhaps someone else recalls it?

Neil

[neile]

And... found it. Silly me, should have just used Bing to begin with.

http://www.finewoodworking.com/SkillsAndTechniques/SkillsAndTechniquesArticle.aspx?id=29677

Neil

[sjcampbell]

Neil,

Thanks for that.

Had a look and it is a simple design, but I don't like the idea of just using a window or door. I would really like it to be a sort of "clean room" so that I don't have to worry about dust, either during printing or drying - or am I being paraniod.

In a previous life  I was a an Industrial Chemist, and in our clean rooms we had the fans blowing in to the room (through HEPA filters but that is a bit extreme!). That way the room was pressurised compared to the outside air, so, in theory, you could only have leaks out of the room, not dust in. However these sorts of fans are expensive.

Like I said I also might be being paranoid about the amount of dust, but I hate re-printing due to a blob of dust on the Hahnemuhle!

Cheers
Steve