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I use something a bit like This
Does the job nicely and can be folded up and put away. The LEDs are a must.
However, the fan is very noisy so buy the wife some ear plugs while you're at it :p
 
RevBillyG said:
I use something a bit like This
Does the job nicely and can be folded up and put away. The LEDs are a must.
However, the fan is very noisy so buy the wife some ear plugs while you're at it :p
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a bit late, but younger brother has one of those as an indoor one and it works pretty well, although he always vents it out a window.
Definitely good enough for acrylics, but I'm not certain I'd trust it to work well enough with solvent based paints and certainly never with spray cans.
 
I'm not sure the suction is enough to safely clear solvents quickly, although it should be fine as long as you aren't returning the air into the house (IIRC the filters on them are very basic), and the suction on the one my brother has is nothing like the Graphicair A300d we have as the main extractor so I have serious doubts about the ability of it to pull in spraycan residue.

Basically it's fine for modern airbrush paints, probably ok for solvent based ones but I'm not certain, and I wouldn't like to bet on it with the dust from rattle cans as those put out a huge amount and I don't think it could clear it fast enough.
 
yeah the overspray etc :)

the graphic air one we bought was probably the best investment in general painting as it gets used for all undercoating in the garage and there is no overspray dust left afterwards, but the cheaper ones are very good for normal airbrushing with the likes of vallejo paints as you've got very low volumes of paint and little overspray so they cope well with it and have the advantage you can pack them away into quite a small space whilst the graphic air unit basically needs a permanent home and is around four times the price.

We basically use the one similar to the linked one as the indoor airbrush station, whilst the graphicair one is the main one in the garage for heavy use like undercoating/spray cans :)
 
Werewolf said:
a bit late, but younger brother has one of those as an indoor one and it works pretty well, although he always vents it out a window.
Definitely good enough for acrylics, but I'm not certain I'd trust it to work well enough with solvent based paints and certainly never with spray cans.
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I also vent mine out the window. Seems to cope with cans ok as long as you're not using a lot.
 
I have the hose going into a large paint bucket which has a couple of inches of water in it. Then carbon filter mats covering the end of the hose and around the edges of the hole. Seems to work really well





Original Youtube video I got the idea from :
 
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