Spray Booth

[gsmittle]

I'm getting ready to graduate to spray finished. Since my shop is pretty small, I don't have a lot of room for a spray booth, so what I'm thinking is I'll hang plastic and use a square window fan with two filters: a HEPA with a fiberglass on top.

What I'm wondering is: how big an explosion hazard would this be for spraying shellac and/or poly? I won't be doing lacquer until I get a real exhaust fan.

g.

[smorris]

I do something similar and have not had any problems, I place a box fan exhausting out the window. I do keep the compressor at the other end of the shop where the air comes in so it is not in the fume stream and an ignition hazard.

I did once start to setup in the same fashion to spray lacquer and decided that it was just too iffy and while the widow Morris would be well taken care of she would kick my butt when she caught up to me.