DIY Paint Booth Construction Project!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,480 words · ~7 min read
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today's video is going to be something a little bit different I will be following
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the excellent instructions I found on wikihow.com to build my own DIY paint
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spraying Booth why would I do such a thing great question because I want to
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paint a video card orange without getting any dust in my paint job that's
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why step one in this guide is hilarious
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visualize your design it says I mean come on if I had any vision would I need
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a guide on wikiHow for how to do this so no I outright refused to do any
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visualization which surprisingly ended up biting me in the butt only a little
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bit later on steps two and three the
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measuring and The Cutting of the PVC tubing were by far the most tedious but
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actually still only took about 40 minutes depending on your goal you might
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alter the provided design a little bit which is easy enough by the way but
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while making something smaller might be better for painting like tabletop gaming
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figurines or something like that if you wanted to do something bigger I don't
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know how suitable this design would be and you might want to look into
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something more professional the guide is for an 8tx 4T enclosure for step four
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the article suggests l ping out all of the pipes that are cut by size but I
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actually went one step further and labeled each of the pieces to make my
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life a little bit easier later on and I'm really glad that I did that because
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depending on what alterations you made to the design you might have some
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lengths of piping that are very very close to each other and writing it down
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once is better than going back and remeasuring them constantly for step
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five my lovely assistant showed up to help me and if you've ever assembled ik
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Ika furniture with a significant other and remember this is basically Ikea
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furniture without even Ikea grade instructions and included tools then you
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probably have some idea how it went from this point on where are your safety
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glasses I am wearing glasses right but those are not safety glasses those are
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metal shards in the glass shards in the eye glasses they still protect my eyes
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you basically want to choose the flattest and straightest of the four leg
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pieces to serve as the legs then you put
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the appropriate pvct joints on them for the horizontal cross braces so you've
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got four tall pieces for each of the four corners so it is suggested that we
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use a lot of pressure to um to pop these
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babies on you've been having a lot of M&M's lately why you lean on it wow it
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was at this point that I realized though that I had missed some of the cutting
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and needed to go back in time to make some small several inch long cuts that
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would help us join our 90 degree elbows and our tea pieces derp wait what how
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are you supposed to do that so it's supposed to go right here wait a minute
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what no I don't think they do do that how is that supposed to work so how
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would you oh great now how's this going to
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come out uh-oh are we supposed to cut another small piece to go in there from
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there it was a matter of disassembling the upper part of the frame adding the
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middle section that allows you to hang project materials that are difficult to
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lay down flat and finally putting in a
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middle support step six is fine-tuning
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which of course I skipped since my assembly was perfect from the get-go
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which leads us to step seven enclosing the booth in plastic here's where the
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instructions get a little wishy-washy so we just kind of started making it up as
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we went along we draped plastic over the structure then taped it up like a
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Christmas present the objective here is to close in your workspace remember
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you'll be wearing a face mask and eye protection if you care about your health
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at all and you want to keep dust out and
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keep paint in so that you aren't contaminating the outside area step
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eight now it's time to put your drop sheet down honestly I don't think it was
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necessary to buy a fancy canvas drop sheet for this but I didn't have time to
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visualize is the design at the beginning so I certainly wasn't going to run
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around making changes to the recipe willy-nilly so there you go you're going
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to want to tape this drop sheet or whatever else it is that you end up
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using to the plastic sheeting on the sides to ensure again that you're
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closing everything in Step nine this is
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another uh visualization would have been helpful moment make sure that you have a
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plan for how you're going to mount your box fan before you start I thought that
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I was going to put it on a ladder but that ended up being too tall so I
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had to find a monitor box that I had lying around once you've decided on a
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height for the fan mark it and move on to step 10 where you cut out the hole
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for the furnace filter tape that baby on
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then tape your box fan to it so that you can exhaust air from your paint booth
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without compromising the health of the people around you and that's pretty much
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it one trip to the local hardware store and 2 hours later we've got ourselves a
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DIY paint booth suitable for small hobbyist grade projects please know
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though that if your intention is to use it more than occasionally or with
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oil-based epoxies and paints like the hardcore stuff you should invest in a
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couple of fans that cannot ignite flammable paint fumes and just generally
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