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Sunday, February 23, 2014

DIY Cardboard Spray Booth


One of the biggest shocks of moving from the desert to the Midwest is a sudden change in everything outside your home: The air changes temperature, everything gets wet, it gets so not-warm that sometimes you have to dress differently... It's exhausting keeping up with this changing weather. We used to leave the cardboard box we spray-painted things on outside for weeks at a time and the worst that would happen is a small dust storm would move it a few feet. Now, we've been snowed in on the weekends and it simply isn't conducive to spray paint when everything is frozen under a few inches of what I am assured is water that fell from the sky. The sky! We needed something to let us spray paint more-or-less indoors. Maybe you do, too.


You'll Need:
  • A box fan
  • Furnace filters similar in size to your fan
  • A cardboard box at least as big as the fan/filters
  • Duct tape
  • Empty gift cards or other sheet plastic
  • Zip ties
  • Under-cabinet light source
  • Lazy Susan
  • Flexible dryer hose, plus some hardware (hose clamp, some kind of flange for vents)
  • Tools: Cutting tools, straightedge, measuring things, marker