Before I moved and my spray booth was still set up I always cleaned everything in the booth with the exhaust fan running.
I also had an adjustable plexiglass shield for the front to keep the fumes in and allow as much room at the bottom as I needed for my hands.
Between the huge exhaust fan and the shield I could run an auto touch up gun in there without getting fumes into the room.
The booth was big enough to hold a 1/10th scale RC Monster truck so I could run it on low speed when just doing trains with an air brush.
Carey
Carey Probst
Owner/Operator Pennsyltucky RR
Chief Microferroequineologist
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Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} painter's decisions
From: Bob Werre <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, November 25, 2012 6:32 pm
To: [email protected]
We've a bit of a cold spell here, but it did warm up enough to mix a
small batch of paint and do a bit of airbrushing. That went fairly
well, I think.
Problem that I'm having is simple matter of housekeeping, economics and
perhaps health. I've always had a devil of a time managing that little
bit of paint left over when completing a job. I like to keep my mixes
until I've had a chance to closely inspect my work. More than once,
I've missed a little area, so basically it's worthwhile to do so.
However, eventually the model is reassembled, put on the layout and the
next project is started. This now leaves me with that mixing bottle
with aging paint that will eventually dry and harden like concrete. I
do tend to forget those until the next painting session some months down
the road.
Now here is where the decisions come in. Do I throw out those little
bottles and buy more. Do I try and clean those bottles (I do that now
when possible) using solvents--(besides the airbrush has to be cleaned
anyhow). The issues here are that I'm spending a fair amount of time
cleaning them out. Next the cost and ill effects of the solvents are
something to consider too--I generally wear a respirator and gloves, but
they're not fool proof. Rather than bring up wheel flanges, couplers
and the like, I thought I would see what opinions you might have!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
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