Spray Booth Project

Penny Ericson discussed the possibility of our student group working with her to construct our own spray booth. Very excited to work on this as I have yet to apply glaze with a sprayer, but of course am now aware of the effect you can achieve with this method. Brendan Adams has constructed his own stay booth as he uses this technique with his work. To help get a better idea of what will be required to create our own version, a little ‘industrial espionage’ took place yesterday at his studio (OK, to be honest, he was only too willing to share his set up with me). I took a number of shots to ensure I could remember each of the components, and how they work.

An important component of the spray booth is an extractor fan, to remove as many of the airborne glaze particles as possible. With the running water system, much of the overspray will have been captured by this and end up in the base of the unit (and can potentially be re-used) but there will still inevitably be airborne contaminates that pose a risk to health. It is important to consider as much filtration of the extracted air as is possible, to ensure you release a minimum into the atmosphere. The images below show the interior and exterior fan components.