Is anyone lining their spray booths for easy clean up? If so, what are you using? I have purchased one of those inexpensive fold-up spray booths and want to try to keep it fairly clean. Since the hood itself is a translucent plastic (lets light through but can’t see through), I am thinking something like wax paper of plastic wrap. Maybe butcher’s paper for the bottom since no light comes through that and the white will reflect. Guess I should cover the turntable too.
I have a metal spray booth, and I use just regular copier paper stuck to the booth sides and rear with magnets. For the bottom, I use old desktop calendar sheets turned upsidedown, again using magnets.
You don’t really need impervious materials to cover the booth walls. Just regular old paper seems to keep my booth walls nice and clean…and I spray them directly to clear jams, too.
Paul A. Cutler III
I made my booth from plywood. I use pages from the local newspaper to line the back and bottom. Fastened down with push pins. Easy and cheap to replace.
My spray booth is a hardboard and plywood box, open to the front with a turntable and with a slot for a replaceable filter in the rear, behind which I use a reversed 20" 3 speed box fan as an extractor. I spray rattle can acrylics mostly with occasional airbrush jobs. I painted the interior flat white to increase reflectivity and enhance the mini fluorescent light located across the top front. As I use this booth frequently, I have noticed over spray buildup on the interior walls.
My simple solution is to use a painter putty flat blade to scrape the walls periodically, followed by cleanup with my shop vacuum.
I have repainted ( with a brush) the white interior once, after many successive scraping. No liner material needed, no fancy additional efforts. Scraper, vacuum- that’s it!
Cedarwoodron
I built my spray booth from 1/8" Masonite, pop-rivetted together using metal angle material meant for the wall-mounted portion of drop-ceiling support grids.
I included a turntable, but have never found a need to use it.
The fan is a surplus one from an air hockey game, and I use standard fibreglass furnace filters, cut in half, to protect the exhaust system. A folded newspaper atop the unused turntable soaks up any spills, and is changed when needed.
As for keeping the booth clean of paint, why bother? I’ve used this for over 35 years, including commercial painting for a local hobbyshop, and paint build-up on the interior surfaces has not made any noticeable decrease in the interior dimensions of the spray booth. [:P]
In the photo below, the booth is shown in my basement workshop, but it’s been moved to its own room in my detached garage. This allows me to paint at any time, day or night, without disturbing the rest of the household, especially important as the compressor runs continuously. The booth is vented to the outdoors, and the room is fitted with a closeable intake for make-up air when the exhaust fan is on. Even so, I always wear a two-stage respirator when airbrushing, as most sessions last for several hours, usually with solvent-based paints.
Wayne
Like my namesake above, mine’s the Paasche galvanized steel booth and I line it with aluminum foil held up with ‘Altoid’ size magnets. Super bright lit with a 40 watt bulb in a 5 1/4" clamp-on work light.
Us “pros” (I own a 14’x28’x11’ automotive booth) use a paint booth coating that either peels or washes off with water. On the light lenses we use a clear film that is lightly adhesive.
But, unless someone wants to buy a 5 gallon pail and divide it up for sale to the hobby market, I don’t think it would be feasible. The lens film is (IIRC) 36" x 100’ and under $40.00. You would need to cut to fit and would probibly not stick well to a wood (rough) surface.
Just a idea from the Proto booth [:D]
I don’t use a liner… I shoot acrylic’s only, so soapy water and a scrub brush works very well, even when dry.
Have yet to get any significant build up on the top of it, where most light comes in… So I am not too concearned.
Thank you for the replies. I had hoped someone using a similar spray booth would have a solution. Most of you seem to have either home-made or professional models. Magnets or push pins won’t work for me.
Here is my first attempt, butcher’s paper for the floor of the booth, shiny side up. The sides I covered with wax paper. All attached with blue painter’s tape. I tried to position some lights to eliminate shadows but wasn’t completely successful. Just going to cover the turntable with a sheet of plain paper for now.
