Paint Booth, Collapsible Painting booth V1.0, Pat Spencer's ID:204

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Type
Make/Model	v1.0
Serial number	N/A
Original owner	Donated by Pat Spencer
Loan status	Donated
Arrival date	?
Location	DMZ Zone
Functional status	Under Development to V2.0
Usage permissions	anyone
Certification	None
Wiki-ID	[[]]
Label	1.0" 1.5" 2.0"

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This Booth was donated by Pat Spencer in response to discussion about a painting project by @David.C

See this Forum Post--> https://forum.protospace.ca/t/now-a-pitch-jank-booth-aka-how-jank-a-paint-booth-could-we-realistically-jank/4684/30

It was offered and used successfully to do the pinball game painting, and is stored in the DMZ area against the wall.

Note that this is a V1.0 (Early prototype) of a small portable Paint booth that servers 2 needs:

1. Provides a low dust environment for spray painting
2. Send fumes outside

The booth was designed to be set up and taken down using an electric screwdriver, screws, some poly, and a few 2x2's.

It has been suggested that this is too hard to set up and could use a revision to make it more usable.

There are 2 possible versions that may come out of this discussion:

1. Make it easier to use as it is currently designed. or
2. Redesign for a "use-in-Place" kind of setup that would be even easier to use.

Both of these suggestions have some compromises, so a review and member consensuses is needed.

Usage

The Current configuration requires the following steps to set up:

• Roll the base unit out and place in front of the garage door
• Carry the door unit over and get it ready to fasten to the base unit
• Attach the door unit to the base unit using either the 4 sample 2x2's that are provided, or
• Attach the door unit to the base unit using longer 2x2's that you will need to provide. The size is up to you.
• wrap poly over the end walls and the roof so as to seal the unit for spraying.
• raise the garage door about 10 to 12 inches to expose the rear of the blower on the base unit. This is a bit of a hack, but you also need to plug the door that is on each side of the base unit.
• turn on power switch on the base unit to start the fan.

Upgrade

V2.0 of the booth has been completed. This includes the following improvements:

• End wall sections that allow them to remain attached to the base unit, as well as collapse for storage. This includes catches to hold the walls in the collapsed position.
• A retractable roof. This is a prototype design using a weighted end to slide the roof down as it is collapsed, and slide up as it is deployed.
• Electrical upgrade to add an electrical switch and outlet for lights.
• Added a 12" flex hose to route the air to the outside. This includes a 3D printed HVAC type adaptor to attach to 12"x12" exhaust from the base unit fan.
• Rubber casters to improve the rolling on concrete. Added castors to the front wall.

it takes a v2.1 upgrades have been completed. This includes the following:

• Added flip-up casters so that the booth can be dropped to the floor, which seals the gap between the walls and the floor.
• plans to improve the attachment of the fan cabinet to the rear wall. This needs to be updated to all for the raising and lowering of the walls.

Proposed additional upgrades:

• Replace Base unit poly with a more resilient fabric dropcloth. I have purchased a 9' by 15' drop for this purpose. All that is needed is to sew up an edge so that it will be resilient.
• construct a floor sweep style air exhaust for porting the air from the booth to the outside. Adapt this to a 48"x3" low profile sweep that the door rests on. There would also be 2 48"x3" door plugs that would allow this to plug the door when deployed. The door is 12 feet wide. Concept drawing is coming

the floor sweep has been designed in Fusion and a prototype will be built first. Basically a 12" hexagon which lofts to a 48" by 3" floor sweep with 10 facets.

Detailed photos (V1.0)

Detailed photos (V2.0)

Documentation

TBD