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| Subject: | Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion |  |
| Date: | Mar 9, 2008 |
| From: | Norm Samuelson | |
I would avoid the track lights; they will produce a lot of heat and very small illumination areas. I used stick-up fluorescent lights down both sides of the roof of my booth. Inexpensive, easy to mount, cool light, and you can add another across the inside of the front if needed.
I built my booth using 1 x 2 wood for a frame and covered it with clear plastic sheet (like some folks use over windows), stapled on. The static in the plastic tends to attract dust and hair away from the model, allows more ambient light from the room in, and when it gets kinda grungy (every couple of years), I recover it. I bought a cheap cross cut saw and mitre box for a very few dollars (about 20 years ago!) to cut it up at home; made it easy to make additions or changes over time. I added a door hinged at the top front, so I can close it when not in use to keep dust, hair, and critters out of it.
As noted by others, your turntable needs to be inside the booth. I have a couple of inexpensive Rubber Maid kitchenware turntables that I can remove from the booth, mount parts as required (on folded tape or stuck to clay or whatever), and move them around for easier positioning. It also allows you to stage your work, and have numerous parts ready to go for different colors or component work.
The floor of my booth is a removable piece of very thin plywood, again covered with plastic sheet for easy replacement. |
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 | Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion [IMG] - Michael Powers - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - AlanMckenzie - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion [IMG] - Michael Powers - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion [IMG] - Gary Cooper - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Michael Powers - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - mike evans - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Michael Powers - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - John Yarosh - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - John Yarosh - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Norm Samuelson - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Michael Powers - Mar 9, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Alan Mckenzie - Mar 10, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion [IMG] - Michael Powers - Mar 10, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a Home-made Spray Booth... Your Opinion - Bill Powers - Mar 10, 2008 |
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