This is a Spray booth I have made on the cheap, in fact I think my total outlay in cash was $5.00 for the dryer ducting and $3.00 for a roll of Duct Tape. Here is the story. I started out with a cardboard box. Its about 14inchs by 14 inches you can get boxes like this for free if you go looking for them. The white jug sitting on top is a empty cat litter jug (free if you have cats) with the bottom cut out of it. It is sitting on top of a 6 inch industrial brushless cooling fan of the type they use in large scale electronics such as the telecommunications industry. You might find some of this type in a salvage yard if your lucky or find another type of brushless fan to substitute.

Here is a picture of the fan. The last place I worked was a factory that threw out many of these because they were considered no good if they ran above a certain noise level. I have 4 total. Never know when you will need a backup. The entire thing is held together and sealed with Duct tape. The Fan is run with a 24 volt power supply that one of my friends just happened to have laying around (this is where scavenging comes into play). I have no Idea of the fans speed or CFS's but I know it runs very fast and moves a lot of air. The wooden Block you see to the right of the box with the copper wire bent and pressed into holes I drilled is not modern art, but a very cheaply made (read free here) Air brush holder.

I purchased a bunch of air conditioner filters from the local hardware store, small cheap ones cost about .99 cents each and tore out the filter part and stuffed balls of it in the ducting at 2 different locations for a 2 stage filtering system to keep all paint and thinner particles in the dryer duct. I also cut down another filter to fit over the fan to keep as much of the paint out of it as possible, but I don't use one too thick as that would slow down on the amount of air and paint fumes being whisked away from my wife's sensitive nose. (using a low odor thinner to clean the airbrush helps a lot here.)

Now for the big question, Does It actualy work???? well check out the next 2 pictures and judge for yourself.

The first picture is of a paper towel hanging in front of the spray booth with the fan off. the 2nd picture is what happens to the paper towel when I turn the fan on. You can see visually here how the paint from the airbrush would not blow back into the apartment. the filter laying on the bottom of the box is the pre-stageing filter I keep taped in front of the fan inside the box. It was origanialy white. So Yes this does Work. Hope it gives yall some ideas fro your own little spray booth made on the cheap if you don't want to invest a couple hundred dollors in one of those store bought ones that you will have to keep clean. Oh how do I clean this, well when the box gets too dirty I just pull my fan off get another box and cut a hole in top for the fan and i'm ready to go at it again.