Tim Stiffy Alpine series I ---------------Original Message--------------- I'm painting parts in a (carpeted) bedroom of the apartment I use for my office (desks and hobby bench are in the living room). I went to a local appliance shop and asked if they'd sell me a refrigerator box. They were only too happy to GIVE me as many as I could take away. In a Honda Civic that was one plus a dishwasher box. The boxes come with caps that have a double fold to lock them to the big square tube of cardboard). [These are from Mexico: Yay NAFTA!] I taped the caps securely and laid it lengthwise on the floor, and cut a couple access flaps (trimming the cuts with tape to avoid lint). One side of the box had a perforated tab and this side is face up. I pulled the tab open and on the underside stapled a folded J-cloth over the whole. An old 4" minicomputer fan covers the hole to exhaust the box. A troublelight hangs in the box to provide decent portable light.
So far I've painted a few metal and plastic pieces, my glovebox. The box works great. The best access flap is on the side, and one in the end opposite the fan is in the works. I cut a large flap on top at first, ignoring Newton's First Law of Gravity: Dust falls Down (from above). A few feet of the magic silver tape will fix that. I spray at the end of the box opposite the fan, through a flap about mid-way, and any airborne spray that doesn't land on the part or the box walls is drawn toward the fan end quite visibly though gently. Perhaps a better solution would be a plastic window and just a small arm hole.
My landlady will never know...
--- J e r o m e Y u z y k | jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca - - BRIDGE Scientific Services | www.tgx.com/bridge - - Sunbeam Alpine Series II #9118636 | www.tgx.com/bridge/sunbeam -
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