DIY paint booth fan question
All coatings contain harmful chemicals even the waterborne coatings.
2K catalysts contain iso-cyanates (NOT CYANIDES) and are extremely harmful to humans if precautions aren't taken. Always read the label of any product you use and use the appropriate precautions.
I sound like I'm harping at everyone on here but I don't want to see anyone get hurt or worse. I was stupid too once!!!!
And to the two gentlemen who know old painters. Tell them they are stupid and very lucky to be on this side of the dirt. I have known painters too and a very few of them made it past 40.
As far as the negative environmental impact because the overspray wasn't trapped during the paint job, you guys should think long and hard about what you're doing.
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Well, you can't really preach this stuff enough and sometimes I feel like I'm harping also. You sound like the guy that used to come into the shop for the "right to know" seminars. lol Yeah, all of it is bad stuff. The non-believers need to sit down with an MSDS sheet and thoroughly read through it and read the laundry list of chemicals and metals, dangers, etc. I was also stupid when I was young. Painting 6-8 cars a day, all day, everyday. 16-18 y/o wasn't nothing for me to walk in the booth and spray a coat of base on a couple panels and walk out never putting a mask on. Too busy with the $$hustle, mixing paint for the next one, keeping my preppers on track, checking over bodywork etc.
I myself don't know any 80 year old painters, or 60, or 50 for that matter either. A few I knew and the ones that mentored me are gone. Now I wait for the time bomb. Docs checking my liver and kidney functions every 6 months. Chest x-rays every so often. Some short term memory issues, and they're telling me i developed ADD as an adult.
The environment concerns are real. If you can smell it you're being exposed from the time you open the can till the paint finished curing. Overspray is funny. It will creep through any tiny little crevice or orifice it can get through. If you're painting in your attached garage and the wife is hollering she smells paint, she, the kids, or whomever is being exposed for at least the next few hours. I'm sure some painting at home are a little more careful, but some comments show some blatant disregard for not only oneself, but for the people around them.
and now I'm a long way away from blowing your house up with a box fan.
