Jerry Bittner
11-26-2004, 9:33 PM
Well I just about got the plans finalized for creating a temporary finishing room in my workshop.
I say temporary because I don't have enough space to make a permanent area. So what I've done is buy some 3/4" electrical steel conduit, three ten foot pieces actually. I put a 90 degree bend in two pieces and bridged that with the ten foot piece so now I have a "U" roughly that I will anchor each end of the "U" to the wall and support the middle of the "U" with a hanging bracket. In effect I've creted a shower curtain and I 'got some tarp from the Ogange Box with eyelets that will serve as the shower curatin hanging from the pipe to ground level. Actually, two 15 foot wide pieces that when not in use will be pulled to the wall end on both sides out of the way of normal work. When I want to screen it off, I just pull out each curtain to the hanging bracket and tht break in the "curtain" serves as the entrance.
It works great and all for an investment of $30 bucks.
Now I'm seeking some advice. I want to vent the area and thought about installing a furnace type filter in fromt of one of my dust collect ports. HOwever, I was concerned that if some of the overspray got past the filter, would it damage the bags. Contacted Grizzly, my make of the DC, and they recommended against it.
Anybody have any idea of what filters would ensure me of no escape of overspray? If that isn't an option, I'll discard the DC idea. Next brainstorm is I thought of buying an "over the range exhaust hood" and vent it through the wall. My question is whether the typical range hood has sufficient power to do a decent job exhausting the area (roughly 10 by 10 by 9 (ceiling height)?
Appreciate all the feedback I can get.
I say temporary because I don't have enough space to make a permanent area. So what I've done is buy some 3/4" electrical steel conduit, three ten foot pieces actually. I put a 90 degree bend in two pieces and bridged that with the ten foot piece so now I have a "U" roughly that I will anchor each end of the "U" to the wall and support the middle of the "U" with a hanging bracket. In effect I've creted a shower curtain and I 'got some tarp from the Ogange Box with eyelets that will serve as the shower curatin hanging from the pipe to ground level. Actually, two 15 foot wide pieces that when not in use will be pulled to the wall end on both sides out of the way of normal work. When I want to screen it off, I just pull out each curtain to the hanging bracket and tht break in the "curtain" serves as the entrance.
It works great and all for an investment of $30 bucks.
Now I'm seeking some advice. I want to vent the area and thought about installing a furnace type filter in fromt of one of my dust collect ports. HOwever, I was concerned that if some of the overspray got past the filter, would it damage the bags. Contacted Grizzly, my make of the DC, and they recommended against it.
Anybody have any idea of what filters would ensure me of no escape of overspray? If that isn't an option, I'll discard the DC idea. Next brainstorm is I thought of buying an "over the range exhaust hood" and vent it through the wall. My question is whether the typical range hood has sufficient power to do a decent job exhausting the area (roughly 10 by 10 by 9 (ceiling height)?
Appreciate all the feedback I can get.