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George--You have always been one of my heroes. You have helped my sometimes when I had mechanical questions, and you have displayed incredible talent with the things you design and build. You have my best wishes for good health, and many, many thanks go out to you for all the help you have given...

All of my life I have wanted a sand blasting cabinet. Having one would have served me well all the years I was building hot-rods, and during my last 15 years of building model engines. I do have a one quart sandblasting gun, and I have used it outside on top of a big blue tarp that I have. It...

Better late than never. I had one of my sons drop by this morning and help me lift the powder paint booth into it's final resting place. It is setting on top of my ancient table-saw that I use about once every five years. The height of my garage window from the floor dictated the overall shape...

Normally, I would post a shot of the finished spray booth in place----but---I'm sick. Sick as a friggin dog, with a chest cold. I only catch a cold every five or six years but when I do it's a doozy. Hopefully I will get the paint booth finished and in place over the coming weekend.---Brian

This morning I picked up a quart of semi gloss white enamel and a tube of paintable caulking. I should have this thing caulked and painted either this afternoon or tomorrow. Right now we have a visiting grandson, and my better half has informed me that we are going for lunch in the nearby park...

Things are moving at a snails pace, but they are moving. Today I picked up my #2-56 threaded rod from my supplier, and a dozen stainless steel nuts (He couldn't get brass nuts) to be used on the ignition side of this engine.

Well, other than a bit of caulking, painting, and grinding of some really, really ugly welds, it's finished. It looks like I thought it would. I actually did have a 20" box fan, but found out from number 2 son that "While he had the fan borrowed from me, it quit working, so he thru it out!!!"

Yesterday I glued and screwed the mdf particle board together, and installed a new water trap and regulator on my main air supply. The fan has three speeds, and I will experiment to see what speed works best for me. I do plan on some cross rods to hang parts on and to ground as well.

And at the going down of the sun--The powder paint booth is assembled using woodscrews only. In the picture you can see the box fan and the furnace filter. Tomorrow I will undo the woodscrews and apply Elmer's wood glue to all the contact surfaces, then reinsert the woodscrews, pull everything...

I could do without a powder paint booth, but if I do I might have to do without a wife. Mrs. Rupnow gets on my arse for tracking metal filings from the lathe and mill thru the house. If I added powder paint to that I would be in a world of hurt. Today I picked up a 20" square box fan and a 20"...

So, here we are, 8 weeks after my knee operation. I'm doing well,--no infection and minimum soreness. I'm just beginning to walk around my house without using a cane. My energy levels are far lower than I had wished, but apparently that is not unusual at this stage of the game. I got a phone...

Nah, I'm okay---mostly. I'm waiting for some threaded brass 2-56 rod to come into my hobby shop, which will be used on the electrical side of things. Right now I'm consumed by paint booths for powder paint and how to build one on the cheap. I don't have near the energy I should, and the doctor...

Gordon---the cardboard box option is sounding better and better.---Brian

Yipes!! I just went up to the hardware store and a sheet of 5/8" x 4 foot x 8 foot plywood good one side costs $76.

Sparky--I'm not arguing because I don't know, but there are a hundred posts about people building or buying powder paint booths on the internet.---Brian

For the last three days I have been checking out all of the "home built" spray booths for powder paint. It seems that the simplest to build is based around a 20" square box fan which has four plywood sides to form the box and is open on the front side for access. It has a 20" square furnace...

The brown dust kicked up into the air will contain "spores". If you inhale the spores, they flourish in your upper lungs---perfect temperature, lots of oxygen being inhaled. Chances of it happening are slim, but it does happen.

Don't eat it. It will kill you.

After a grand chase thru the "used stuff for sale" adds, I found a sandblaster cabinet with fold up glass lid and "some of the hoses" for $60 Canadian. This is in a city about two hours from here, but the guy is coming to Barrie on other business in mid August and will deliver it to me. That...

My wife has an antique gravy boat which has some gold tracery in the trim. I made the mistake of trying to heat up some gravy that was in the bowl.---Instant lightning storm in the microwave. Scared the snot out of me!!! I hit the "off" button right away, and no lasting harm was done to the...