Mike Rambour writes:
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> Does anyone have a good source for a re-breather ? I looked at TIP tools
> and they seem awfully expensive. All I want is a small air filter type
> thing to avoid the same mistakes I made with my lungs when I restored my
> first 2 cars. I built the TIP bead blasting cabinet and I think some type
> of breathing apparatus would be a nice thing to have. Yes, I was young and
> foolish once and my lungs paid a heavy price, I am now wiser and more
> careful. I don't want any thing to exotic or expensive but I do want more
> than a paper mask or cartridge filter.
What's a re-breather?
What happened to your lungs?
> Almost on the same subject, can I use a kitchen stove top hood for a
> small painting booth or will it go BOOM ? I plan on building a small box
> for painting all the usual small parts that go into a car, nothing big or
> fancy just 3 feet by 3 feet and I was thinking of using a kitchen hood to
> remove the paint vapors. What I want to do is cut a hole in the garage
> wall and hang a box in the hole on the outside, with plastic on the inside
> of the garage. Start the fan, paint the part, let down the plastic and
> keep working on other things while the paint dries and hope that keeps the
> majority of the vapors out of the garage. Will it work, will it go boom,
> is there better for not too much money (considering I already have a old
> hood to use).
I built a paint booth sort of like what you're talking about with a
cheap $10 fan. I used plastic sheeting to enclose the 'booth' and then
used the fan on about a 15' run of duct to exaust air from the booth.
Worked fine, didn't explode. Your results may be different. If you
can figure out how to blow air into the booth without stirring up dust
then you could safely use a cheap fan (as long as you turned it on
before spraying).
It was in a back room of the house, connected by only a door
to the rest of the house. Paint fumes still got into the house.
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