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| | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Also while I'm finishing my second cup O’ coffeeeee this morning, and was an thinking bout spraying, I got to wondering where do the fumes go in a professional spray booth? Years ago when we sprayed the product that built with lacquer to comply with OSHA regulations all that was required was an approved metal spray booth with filters. The filters took out the solid particles but the fumes were simply exhausted out into the atmosphere.
I understand that some of the products used to day are friendlier to the environment but not necessarily to the lungs. When using the 2k systems the approved spray booths still remove the solids and vent the fumes out into the atmosphere, correct? So even though we have our fresh air suit on, if the air is being drawn from down wind of the spray booth taint we still getting a dose? And what about the passerby that is downwind? All of the professional booths that I have seen vent vertically, I suppose the thinking is that by the time it reaches back to the ground level it will have dissipated enough to not be a human hazard?
As stated in a previous discussion, I’m looking forward to the day when they get the water based paints perfected.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
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Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 | I dunno, all the booths I have seen had filters(but I can't see them trapping all the fumes), & Robin58 says his local DEQ wanted regular furnace filters. I guess they are more concerned w/particles over fumes. | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 328 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2003 Posts: 328 | I think it is the solids that do the most damage. I am no expert, but the fumes are lighter than air and dissipate up into the atmosphere. It is the solids that clog lungs and contaminate the soils and water.
Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine and into your brain...that is where crappy ideas come from.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | what's required for booth exhaust depends on where you are - for starters most up to the minute systems now are downdraft, but vent straight up, and particulate filters have also gotten very high tech, but some areas do require very spendy scrubbers, water washing, or even carbon filters - I'd think CA would have the toughest standards work out a way to 'biofilter' the exhaust and you've got it covered - pump the exhaust air into a mound of soil  Bill | | |
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