Jim's TOTALLY awesome paint booth!

The bolts are welded to a rebar square that's buried in the pour.
Hi Jim,
my 16 cfm unit is on wheels
but it's compressor head bolts onto the frame with big rubber washers on top, between & underneath.
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Update time.
I've used the paint room a time or two... mostly priming stuff.... and was gonna paint the modded tank yesterday, but decided to work on the room instead. Truth be known, it was kinda a pain 'cause the room isn't done and all my paint is upstairs. I gotta mix it up there and then drag everything down to the basement..... to the unfinished, empty paint room.

So.... built a bench to store supplies and mix paint on. Kinda small at 30" by 4 ft. but it'll work quiet nicely. Couldn't really go much bigger. After all the rooms only a 12' by 12'.

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Made another bench for sanding and painting on. This one's 2 X 4 ft. Nice part is it's portable. The top fastens to two sawhorses. Nice and solid and breaks down easily when I need it out of the way.

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On to the the water separator. It's made from half inch copper pipe. Would have liked to go 1in. but everything you see there is stuff left over from a plumbing job I did 10 or 15 yrs ago.... read that free. :rolleyes: You guys looked at the price of copper plumbing bits lately? Holy crap. :yikes:
Anyway, still gonna need a trip to Home Depot tomorrow to get one stick to tie it into the rest of the house air line and a fitting for the compressor side.

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There's also a commercial separator/regulator just for the paint room.

...and in every paint shop I've ever worked in, there's a sheet of paper or cardboard on the wall for adjusting your spray gun. Who am I to go against tradition?

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And your test sheet hanging on the wall looks like 99% of my paint jobs, well really need a few more runs!
Always had a problem finding the sweet spot between sandpaper rough dry finish and runs that look like Niagara Falls in the winter!

Hi Ken,
the amateur spray painter's 3-way, eh?
Looks just about good enough.
Perhaps just one more coat?
Oh fuck!
 
Interesting water separator. I need to make one of those. I wonder if old baseboard heaters with the fins would give you better cooling and drop out more water.
 
I wonder if old baseboard heaters with the fins would give you better cooling and drop out more water.
It's quiet possible it would... provided the coils are rated for whatever pressure your compressor puts out. I finally got this one all plumbed in and working, but it's dryer than the Sahara here right now. So... no way to test it's effectiveness.

Sometime down the road I plan on putting a shroud around it and feeding that with a small fan. I think that will be fairly effective.
 
Fin tube is quite thin, Type N or thinner the aluminum fins are slipped over the tube then a mandrel drawn through the tube to expand it to hold the fins.
No attribution, but found this,
"When finished, if it is Slant/Fin, it is rated at 200 PSI at 250° F., on our lowest rated model, and some models have a higher pressure rating.
Thinner metal transfers heat to the fins faster."
Pretty sure I had a dryer made of fin-tube in a garage paint shed long long ago. It never blew up. But an air/water exchanger may be more effective. 3/4 x 1/2x 1/2 tees with the stops reamed out so you have a 1/2" inner air pipe and a water jacket in 3/4 copper tube. placed at an angle so condensate drips can run down to the drip leg without getting picked up by the airflow.
 
I've run baseboard fin tube well north of 100psi on numerous occasions air testing systems. Like anything else I'd be more worried about the joints not the tubing itself.
 
Fin tube is quite thin, Type N or thinner the aluminum fins are slipped over the tube then a mandrel drawn through the tube to expand it to hold the fins.
No attribution, but found this,
"When finished, if it is Slant/Fin, it is rated at 200 PSI at 250° F., on our lowest rated model, and some models have a higher pressure rating.
Thinner metal transfers heat to the fins faster."
Pretty sure I had a dryer made of fin-tube in a garage paint shed long long ago. It never blew up. But an air/water exchanger may be more effective. 3/4 x 1/2x 1/2 tees with the stops reamed out so you have a 1/2" inner air pipe and a water jacket in 3/4 copper tube. placed at an angle so condensate drips can run down to the drip leg without getting picked up by the airflow.

Well, I must say, the fact that it never blew up is certainly an encouraging recommendation Gary!

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