Okinawa wtf you see any GIs coming your way id run

I used to work for one of the largest HVAC / Plumbing companies.. I know a little about air exchanges :) Interestingly enough MOST commercial buildings even without HEPA Level filtration generally have better air quality than the outdoors more often than not. As houses get tighter and tighter they are moving along to fresh air exchangers.. Im sure they are going to talk about HRVs. Its a good class you should get some fresh insight .

Your welcome! Thank you!

ideally id shoot straight out the back and then down. but since I am spraying on a whiteboard that will take a bit more configuring. A lot of t shirt shops (which do very heavy spraying) use a slat wall and pull the air down and filter it below.

indeed it is a lot more air than most realize. Of course with airbrushing we can get away with less but solvents tend to linger around. even the curing out is harmful. Not a house friendly option at all.

Hey Doc! Yes im trying to do my part. Obviously each persons setup is different. But i'm hoping to get some people to think about it. Its not very complicated when dealing with just paint particles. But people probably don't realize its the smaller particles you cannot see that are the most dangerous! And about merv 12 is where micro dust / smoke particles even a percentage of bacteria starts getting filtered out.

ill have to check that one out. I finally got around to building out the little spray area a bit. as I mentioned in this video. now I have a box /easel setup. and filtered/carbon extraction when the weather is uncooperative and outside exhaust when it is. (or if i'm spraying a bit heavier)

i really really want people to be safe. If you are taking any precautions you are doing more than many... and more than I have at times. I admit I rarely wear a mask for the airbrushing part. But I do filter most everything I do, or exhaust to outdoors. Best to you! Bill

@@TheAIRspace Hey Bill. When you are spraying with acrylics and at the end of the day, do you soak your airbrush parts in anything? I recall when I worked at Seaworld we would shoot lacquer thinner through the airbrushes and spray guns when we were finished.

@@sandrajohnson2489 i use a spray bottle with water spray it out, wipe out the cup with clotth. then usually a tiny bit of isopropyl alchohol flush through the brush rinse and leave a tad bit of water in them (if using the next day) if really dirty i use a small paint brush and will clean with iso alchohol or reducer.

@@TheAIRspace Thank you for replying!! I appreciate it. I also have been using a spray bottle with water to clean out the cup. I will then dump the water into a large plastic bottle and do this a few times then wipe with a cloth. I spray airbrush cleaner through the airbrush. I thought I might be missing a step though but I guess not. My cheap Master airbrushes (gravity feed and siphon feed) haven't been working like they should so I have been disassembling them and cleaning them thoroughly. This of course becomes a hassle. I know I should invest in a good airbrush like Iwata or Badger but I just can't afford it. I don't do detailed work like you do though. I am mostly painting celestial/cosmic paintings. Thanks again Bill. I really enjoy watching your channel. Happy painting!

im using a 4 inch right now.. my plan is eventually move to a more downdraft style and i have not decided on if ill move to a 6 inch fan or run dual 4 inch fans. of course that all hinges on me getting around to setting up that room the way i want. I still keep other options open for when im painting in the actual larger studio area.

each person has unique needs. if your painting flat on a desk doing small 8x10's spraying low pressure through a micron you wont need much at all. if your painting higher pressures say 35 and above vertically obviously thats gonna throw off more overspray. A merv 8 filter pulling overspray as close as possible to the actual spot you are working (pulling down is better than up) is going to be way better than doing nothing for certain.

Im by far a fan of the ps290. The TH1 is a great brush as well, but the difference between them is very small. The Th2 is great, but i would rather spend money for an LPH80 mini spray gun before id spend money on a th2. That's just my thinking. depends on if your compressor can handle it. If i were in the market for a fan pattern airbrush, id get a 290, in fact that is the brush I kept myself :)

@@TheAIRspace thank you so much for your advice sir . I think i will get ps 290 as i dont know if my compressor could handle a mini spraygun as its a small airbrush compressor with 3L tank that gives me at most 40 PSI constant.So i think my best option would be ps290. And i really want you thank you for you valuable information that you provide.

its really not very hazardous if your doing acrylics... You can simply put a fan and filter by you. its not likely you will be spraying huge volumes To be honest I started on my kitchen table with one airbrush and an old compressor

ooops hit send too fast. IF you wear your mask you dont even have to do anything but overspray will over a long time create more dust in the room.

@@TheAIRspace i appreciate the tips ! Thanks

definitely my intent is not to dissuade anyone. I just want people to be aware and you should protect yourself. In my case I do some heavy volume painting at times, and the setup i have now is ridiculously cheap and easy. Its a filter and fans and some foam core board to keep overspray from getting on things.

absolutely. I do not spray solvents in my home. i believe i mentioned that I built a small booth for 3 d items and an easel setup in that area now. and i have one fan that pulls direct outdoors, and one that runs through a filter and fan. so I have both options. And yet i still wouldn't use urethanes in the house.

@@TheAIRspace I was wondering if i could get your opinion on something... Im stuck in an apartment these days, i have a spare bedroom, i spray a little bit in a small spraybooth in there, but it is not a good solution as i like to spray with solvents and i want to spend more time spraying. I have had two different ideas that i been thinking about for a while now... One is to build a fully enclosed spraybooth, like a sandblasting cabinet. Although i think that might work it may be hassle to use if i want to spend more time spraying. Im clumsy enough as it is and changing paints and brushes inside an enclosed booth with those giant gloves on would become annoying pretty fast... So what do you think about this, As you mentioned there is a lot of gear designed for growing plants around these days and i have been looking at a grow tent. They already have inlets and outlets for ducting and wiring. I was thinking a 4 foot by 8 foot tent, two 250-350 cfm fans, one running filtered air in at ground level and one running air out the top then over to the window, the fan in running a little bit slower to keep negative pressure. Then on-top of that my spraybooth inside with a third fan also running out to the window that would catch most of the spray... Should be fairly easy to clean whatever particles left behind regularly by misting the walls and wiping it down, and while curing paint or not using it i could always leave one fan running to keep the negative pressure... the whole thing would be fairly portable and not needing any construction work done to the room. This is about as safe as i can think of making it... Would you be comfortable spraying solvents in a setup like this inside an apartment bedroom?

@@TheAIRspaceso would createx airbrushing paint be fine with your setup of the fan and filter with a pot vac

@@AlexBartelme-lw5lv Running a fan and filter setup even just a box fan and filter setup to grab the overspray would be fairly safe for airbrushing with createx. almost all of the t shirt shops in kiosks are just filtering the paint particles. and returning filtered air back to the environment. Pat Gains who owns multiple shops has a diagram showing what fans he uses in walmarts. Of course always use common sense, and its entirely dependant on volume.

That is likely what ill put in sort of when I get a chance to go in there and set it up.. I have everything mobile carts at the moment. So I alternate between painting in that area and painting on an easel in the big room. And once spring comes Ill likely paint out doors a bit for fresh air and sunshine. (i also do some spray gun work in the spring summer and fall months)

@@TheAIRspace I will have to figure out something with regards to spraying solvents though! The wicked paint line is driving me nuts and I can't take it anymore

@@meanasscobra Ive had good experiences with Wicked overall... But I was much happier when I was using 4012 with it. I use a lot of the illustration paints. the downside is them needing a barrier coat to be durable. (or mixed with additives) you may find them much more pleasing to paint with. I still use wicked on bigger things, also you may like the wicked detail line over the regular wicked line up.. all depends on what you are painting.

@@TheAIRspace I was actually including the illustration line as well! I just can't find the sweet spot between flow and spidering. I don't have an issue with solvents and I don't have an issue with Trident paint....

@@meanasscobra Well for ME illustration with almost no reducer works well. I usually only reduce enough to mix the colors which is less than 5 percent. Wicked being a different story and I reduce that heavily if airbrushing. (although the wicked opaquesi run straight but I dont use them for details at all)

you really need it to grab the overspray right at the source.. just having a box fan in the general area wont do enough. Unless the fan is placed right next to your painting area.. And if you have air leaking around the filter .... its just gonna pull the overspray in and spread it everywhere. : )

you will be fine with fresh air and a respirator.. But dust will start to accumulate.

@@TheAIRspace thank you.

Heat recovery ventilation would be my guess. And that’s a whole long explanation

How about a fully enclosed paint booth... like a sandblasting cabinet. Im in an apartment myself for now and i have been thinking about building one, I don’t do a ton of airbrushing so i think it might work for me, would be good for curing and keeping the dust out of the paint too and i might get me one of those airbrush sandblasters also 😁 As far as 3d printing, there is this insulation plastic you can buy for covering the windows in wintertime... make a cheap frame, wrap it in this plastic and run a duct out the window with a pc fan on it...

they work better for paint than covid...