ozzyo Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Hello all, for a while now one of my extractor fans has bee running in fits and starts ( it's a joined pair of cooling fans for a computer). It's been in the paint booth for about ten years (so it does not owe me anything). So I had a look on EBay for something similar and found a pair for about £1.50 12V 0.1Amp. each. The add said 16 cubic feet of air per min. (I think that it should be 1.6 ). So I removed the old fans and this is what I seen down the exhaust pipe. So it proved that the fans were doing there job and keeping all this off the paint job. All I have to do now is get an adaptor plate made to fit the new ones, and see how we go. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m mcdermott Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 better in there than in your lungs ozzyo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 better in there than in your lungs ozzyo Hello all, your right better down that tube than my tubes, I do also use a mask. I have thought about one of the full face masks that has a constant air pressure over your face, if it's used with a compressor what muck could that put in to the "clean air" (my compressor is below the spray booth)? Plus the cost puts me off. Down the tube again. The blurb that comes with the fans, the description on EBay says 16 cubit feet of air per min. but this says, air flow 36FM. What does that mean? If anyone can let me know please do so. This is what it says on the new fans, and this is what it says on the old ones. The adaptor plate, after Kev. cut it out for me, he did it in about 10 mins. it would have taken me at least an hour. Then with the mounting screw holes in it. The fans with a bit of a mod. done to them, I'm not sure if it needs it doing, as the air could come through the slots in the mounting plate and the gap between the fans as well. The fans mounted to the adaptor plate and then on the spray booth back with the sealant squeezing out. After a bit of a clean up and running. The new and the old. The old one (do you think I could sell it on EBay as weathered?). The state of the booth after the work had been done. As you can see the back and side walls have been scraped down. This is the pile of paint over spray that came off them. All cleaned up and ready for some work. I'm not sure about the new fans suction, so I'm going to fit two more above these two and hope that will increase the "suck". OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Graff Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Why don't you use a filter in front of the fans? That would save your fans..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 Why don't you use a filter in front of the fans? That would save your fans..... good point, but at £1.50 for a pair of fans? Also you would need more suction. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Graff Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Not really much more pressure, but you would stop extracting a lot of particles.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 I have cobbled a fan using a bathroom extractor fan, linked with a hose, cost a bit more but the hose gets dangled out of the window. A cooker hood filter in a frame goes over the front, bit of a lash up............ but it works! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Hello all, the start of getting the fans ready for the second fans. It looks like something from a horror film The fan case, after been reshaped. The second set of fans in place along with the casing. The fans up and running and at rest. Now for a little diversion, the plate marked out for some holes. The holes all drilled. The two slots opened up. The plate, after cleaning up, gritblasting and the Allen screws fitted. In the words of Rolf, can you tell what it is yet? OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 A short board for speed cribbage? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted June 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2012 I bought these from Airbrushes.com: 1 x Filter 1 (large pre-filter) for E-SB-88 Spray Booth (E-SB-88#5) = £5.86 1 x Filter 2 (small particulate filter) for E-SB-88 Spray Booth (E-SB-88#6) = £1.47 I then built this around them! overall view striplights in side wings freebie turntable freebie fan freebie trim The small filter is attached to the front of the fan grille by wire. The large filter is visible in the photos and sits in a wooden frame (slides in from top). The fan is from our bathroom (having been replaced with a waterproof one when I remodelled the shower cubicle) I have a hose to fit to take the air away (about £8 from b&q) The turntable's from a friends microwave they were dumping. The black plastic trim that finishes off the only visible plywood edge is actually stationery binders. White gloss paint left over from decorating. Plywood was leftovers too. Fused supply was from the diy spares box. Wire was stripped from flexes of thrown away appliances, as was mains plug. Lights were from an old wardrobe, the wood from which made a built in study about three houses ago! Total cost of spray booth about £15 and six hours work. As you can see from how clean it is, I have not yet used it but have tested the suction and it does draw air through quite nicely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Hello all, some more bits for the thing. I'll show you some more at the end of the day or tomorrow. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Are they the pegs for the board ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Are they the pegs for the board ? Something like, but there's only three of them. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hello all, to get the base to fit into the M/C vice I had to remove the vice jaws, not some thing that I would normally do but for a one off job OK. If I had not done it this way I would have had to remove the vice and set the job on the M/C table, so a lot more work. All the bits assembled, and in the spry booth on the turntable. Showing what its going to be used for. It should be better than the bits of wood with nails knocked in to them, that I use now. OzzyO. PS; the two wider spaced holes are for placing the cab roof on when I'm doing the underneath of the loco body. Going this wide should make it a bit more stable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Like it...have you done more than one of these? I can't imagine that you only build one at a time, or even spray the chassis and body at the same time. Really neat idea. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Like it...have you done more than one of these? I can't imagine that you only build one at a time, or even spray the chassis and body at the same time. Really neat idea. Mike Hello Mike all, I've only done one of them as I tend to spray one part when it's ready. The tender frames will get done when all the bits are on. Then the outer frames and then the body and so on with the engine. The wheels will get blackened then mounted on a cake board and sprayed up. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
big T Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 What a great idea! I imagine the weight of the metal plate keeps the job nice and steady? Cracking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigeln Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 A lot of motor trade sprayers wet the floor to help eliminate dust and also the paint overspray will "sit" on it. You could use kitchen damp kitchen roll. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I use a similar system but with one larger cabinet fan .I put paint stop pad filter in front and it worked very well .I sprayed tens of thousands of small promotional trucks ,taxis and other toy cars in all sorts of lurid colours and my spray booth was like a multicolored paint shop .Lousy work but very well paid ,I always thought ironic that i could do decent quality model work but earned 5 times more per hour painting cheap toy promo givaways .Anyone want a litre or two of a very lurid green paint that I mixed just before the customer changed their mind and wanted purple taxis instead ?.Its still there .I know if I dispose of it someone will ring up and ask for 1000 green taxis even though I stopped doing it a quite few years ago now .I used cheap external mix airbrushes and drilled out the nozzle hole so I could use thicker Holts car paint which gave a good solid gloss with out going everywhere .Of course I also wore a mask which is essential . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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